Preparations
Evening inspection is underway with D&RGW 491 before 6 hours of running with the Polar Express.

Rocky Mountain Stalwarts- Now at rest after a comparatively easy day of hauling museum guests, four narrow gauge workhorses are seen in the roundhouse at the Colorado Railroad Museum. Des... (more)

The snow is falling at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado as their Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad #491 (2-8-2) pulls vintage passenger cars around the large museum grounds.

Happy Holidays

The Colorado Railroad Museum operates the Polar Express Train Ride November through December every season. With special arrangements we set up a shoot with Al Bl... (more)

Happy Holidays

The Colorado Railroad Museum operates the Polar Express Train Ride November through December every season. With special arrangements we set up a shoot with Al Bl... (more)

Happy Holidays

The Colorado Railroad Museum operates the Polar Express Train Ride November through December every season. With special arrangements we set up a shoot with Al Bl... (more)

Icicles, Blue Hour, and Snow

Snow flakes glisten in the headlight beam of #491 while taking water at the tank. Nearly a foot of snow fell on this day, just right for some shots... (more)

October Snow

D&RGW #491 is throttling up the grade at the Colorado Railroad Museum in the first snows of the season.

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's 491 (4-8-2) makes an impressive plume on a bitter cold day as it runs the circuit at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. The engine was built ... (more)

Under cold and snowy skies the Colorado Railroad Museum's Denver & Rio Grande Western 491 (2-8-2) enters the turntable. Notice the pair of 'Galloping Geese' in front of the roundhouse. If you lov... (more)

It's a snowy December, 1940 as Denver & Rio Grande Western #491 makes its way into Salida, Colorado. Actually it is October 2019 and DRGW 491 is making the rounds giving passengers rides at the Co... (more)

In light snow the Colorado Railroad Museum's DRGW 491 (2-8-2) makes a run to the water tower. It will spend the day giving rides to those lucky enough to venture out in the snow to see this incre... (more)

It's a bitter cold and snowy morning as Denver & Rio Grande Western #491 leaves the warm confines of the roundhouse at the Colorado Railroad Museum and creeps onto the turntable.

If one did not know better you would think this is a pic of winter operations in the early 1900's. With bitter cold temperatures and falling snow, the Colorado Ralroad Museum staff muscle the tur... (more)

Falling snow and temperature in the 20's help DRGW 491 put on a steam show at the Colorado Railroad Museum. The Baldwin 2-8-2 was built in 1902 as a Class C-41 standard gauge locomotive. It was re... (more)