Partly Cloudy evening in Vail, waiting for a train. SouthWestRails.Com

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With a one-two punch of the COVID Pandemic and The Elk Creek Bridge being washed out action shots of The Durango and Silverton will be hard to ... (more)

At the first crossing of the GCRY near Grand Canyon Village.

After running and stumbleing down the hill from the Highway, I catch the 487 at the Tank.

Waiting on the Highball

Work Extra 18 is in front of the Spanish Peaks as it takes its train along for a ride. This is the first steam locomotive east of La Veta Colorado since 1956.

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Rocketing out of the sag at Hackberry, this Westbound heads along the former US Route 66. Track speed here is 80mph for passenger and 70 for freight into this curve, and this train is doing it's ... (more)

Back In Black... Pitch Black. In Steam and able to move under her own power for the first real time since going on the ground at Los Pinos Siding which resulted in a broken trailing Truck. Looki... (more)

Fully Loaded Ore train after leaving the Ray Mine

As now seen on the cover of the eighth edition of the GCOR (The General Code of Operating Rules, the rule book of nearly every western railroad). Decelerating into a temporary speed restriction... (more)

Clawing her through the ancient sinuous waterway of Coconino Canyon, Grand Canyon Railway 29 puts on a show as it climbs towards Imbleau on its southward journey towards Williams

Slumbering, Sierra #3 and #28 bask in the darkness of the Jamestown Roundhouse.

Down by the station early in the... actually, it's late evening but tomarrow is a doubleheader so I might as well get the two before they head out... Sout... (more)