The Colorado Railroad Museum recently completed repairs on their Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Baldwin 2-8-2 #491. It spent the weekend giving rides to lucky visitors to this special museu... (more)

The bast paint scheme on the face of any F9A

DRGW 318 waits at the Colorado Railroad Museum for its turn to receive some restoration love. The 2-8-0 locomotive was built in 1896 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

Denver & Rio Grande Western #491 (2-8-2) runs past the Colorado Railroad Museum's vintage rolling stock as it gives passengers a ride around the grounds.

The Curve At Sunrise

Denver & Rio Grande Western #491 (2-8-2) gives riders a sense for what it must have been like to see and hear this engine run over 120 years ago.

The Colorado Railroad Museum ran their DRGW 491 (2-8-2) which was built by Baldwin in 1902. The dedicated men and women of the museum do an amazing job keeping these historic treasures active for... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum's DRGW 5771 (F9A) still looks like it could lead the Rio Grande Zephyr through the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado continues to cosmetically restore their two diesel veteran DRGW units; 5401 (SD40-T2) and 3011 (GP30).

A lash up you would think could only happen on a model railroad. D&RGW SD45's 5328, and 5336, sandwich a big Union Pacific DD35 83. They are going under the over pass at 4th South, running down 4... (more)

Simmering quietly in the morning light, Cumbres & Toltec 484 and Denver & Rio Grade Western 425 sit outside the shops at Chama. Wearing a new number as part of the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup fes... (more)

Five Rio Grande F7s lead by 5644, exits Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado and gets ready to drop down into Coal Creek Canyon in May 1965. Photo by J.B. Calvert, from my slide collection.

For awhile there I was living the life of Reilly, living in Rollinsville and traveling back and forth from work on the Rio Grande via Colo. Highway 72, passing beneath the railroad at the entrance... (more)

All three of Rio Grande’s EMD GP60s, D&RGW No. 3154, D&RGW No. 3155 and—dang it—Union Pacific just repainted and renumbered D&RGW No. 3156 into a yellow No. 5702, power UP’s Denver to Pueb... (more)

Rio Grande PA 6003 and F7 5531 leads Train No.1 the southbound ROYAL GORGE, as it begins its trip on the joint line at South Denver Junction in June 1965. Photo by Al Holtz, from my collectio... (more)