If It’s Wednesday, It Must Be Wash Day … The Rio Grande Zephyr, one of the few non-Amtrak intercity passenger trains in the United States (at this time), operated six day per... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado ran their DRGW 491 (Baldwin 2-8-2 built in 1902) much to the delight of the weekend crowd.

D&RGW #3077 is eastbound, in your face, at Utah Ry. Junction at the lower end of Price River Canyon. Helper Yard is about 3 miles or so ahead. Those tracks on the left are the yard leads to Utah R... (more)

D&RGW #5371 has picked up it’s loads of contaminated waste at the set-out track at Wellington, Utah and is now running east on the ex. Rio Grande main across the shale flats towards the junction... (more)

The Roads No Longer Taken

Four years after a landslide at Thistle, Utah blocked the Spanish Fork River with thousands of tons of earth, wiping out the town, a westbound Rio Grande ... (more)

Moving through the area known as Detour in the Rio Grande timetable, a westbound D&RGW manifest works its way down the Soldier Summit grade.

Time was fast running out for #5371. It was the very last un-renumbered, unpatched Rio Grande unit left on the Union Pacific RR. Fittingly it ran it’s last miles out of Helper, Utah on the “Di... (more)

The grade involved in descending the Gilluly Loops is evident in this view of a westbound Rio Grande freight approaching the Route 6 overpass.

Several auto racks and a Rio Grande caboose punctuate a westbound DODX train under grim skies at Soldier Summit, Utah.

Westbound tonnage punctuated by a Rio Grande caboose rolls across the flats at Una, Colorado.

Rolling alongside the whitecaps of the Arkansas River, Rio Grande train 179, the Ford Fast Freight, grinds through Spikebuck, Colorado.

Once a place you could see the beautiful California Zephyr trains, of the Western Pacific, and Rio Grande. Then the Rio Grande Zephyr until 1983. Then Amtrak. Now the track are gone, all paved ove... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum's DRGW 491, built by Baldwin Locomotive works 120 years ago, runs around the grounds after a recent stint in the steam repair shop. Such a treat to see these steam ma... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum ran their Denver & Rio Grande Western 491 (2-8-2) after some lengthy downtime for needed repairs. Here it runs passengers counterclockwise around the grounds in Golde... (more)

Not many tunnels in Chicago, but plenty of bridges. A four-pack of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors brings a coal train across the Cal-Sag Channel on the IHB. Tom Golden photo.