The conductor of #478 signals to stop on the turntable where it will be spun and backed into the roundhouse for the night.

Engine 481 brings the Cascade Canyon train on the home stretch south through the Animas River Valley. Today, the train is extra long with 12 cars full of happy holiday travelers.

Lettered for the "Polar Express", engine 481 charges up the grade at Hermosa with an extra long 12 car train full of happy holiday travelers.

A daily passenger service on the D&SNGRR headed by locomotive 486 approaches the station at Rockwood. After Rockwood the train will enter the Animas Canyon and the signature "Highline" p... (more)

The regular D&SNG passenger train behind K-36 locomotive 480 passes "Extra E&P #4", a photo special with Dan Markoff's Eureka & Palisade Number 4, "The Eureka", a wood-burning ... (more)

Diesels on "The Silverton": Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad locomotive #7, "Big Al", pulls recently-shopped passenger cars #331 "Trimble" and #336 "Roc... (more)

The D&SNG employees who worked the annual Fall Photographer's Special pose for the traditional group photograph at Milepost 469.5. This was the first of two completely sold-out Fall Photo Trains ... (more)

Work Extra 473 East has just entered Durango yard limits and is crossing the Animas River for the last time today. This was the second of two completely sold-out Fall Photo Trains run by the D&SN... (more)

Galloping along in Rio Grande Southern Goose No. 5 southbound (eastbound in timetable) past milepost 454 on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad just north of Durango, Colorado, on Augu... (more)

While Galloping Goose No. 4 waits on the south leg of the wye, Goose No. 5 turns on the north leg in the background just south (east) of Home Ranch siding, Colorado, on August 14, 2015. This is th... (more)

A view inside the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s Durango roundhouse on October 15, 2014, sees several locomotives in different states of repair. On the right is 2-8-2 Mikado K-28 No... (more)

What appears to be an interesting train is merely the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's GE 50-ton diesel #1, named the "Hot Shot" (in honor of the firefighters who battled larg... (more)

Bedtime for 486. The late summer sun is only about 30 minutes from the horizon and the shadows are long in the Durango Yard. The regular train crews are off the clock and headed home as th... (more)

Durango & Silverton engine 9, the 92-ton narrow gauge center cab diesel is shown turning on the turntable before heading in to round house.

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