Steam, Snow, and Steel

The heavy snow has just begun to fall as the Colorado Railroad Museum finishes the day’s operations with the venerable Denver & Rio Grande Wester... (more)

Grinstien Heritage at Coors

Reflecting on the days work an Ex-executive Big Mac leads the Golden Switch on a cold November Wednesday morning. Ice and sitting water beckon... (more)

The massive winter storm is coated the Denver Leadville & Gunnison 191 (2-8-0) locomotive with a blanket of white snow, accentuating the curves of the boiler and the Congdon stack.

The Rio Grande Southern 'Galloping Goose' no. 7 got a heavy blanket of snow during the Snowmageddon storm of March 14th. You can almost imagine this scene right out of the late 1940's / early 195... (more)

The heavy snow from the March ‘Snowmageddon’ storm that pounded Colorado’s Front Range provided a thick layer if icing on the vintage power in the Colorado Railroad Museum’s grounds. In t... (more)

A Coors SW1000 takes a string of grain hoppers to the brewing facility in Golden, Colorado.

CORX 997 (SW1000) muscles a load of grain hoppers from a silo back to the Coors brewing facility in Golden, Colorado

Coors Critter #998 (SW1001) escorts a cut of grain hoppers to the brewing facility in Golden, Colorado.

Coors switcher 997 (SW1000) makes a solo run to pick up a cut of grain cars. This critter was built in 1970 for the Burlington Northern Railroad.

Coors 998 (EMD SW1001) gets ready to run a string of hoppers under McIntyre Street in Golden on the way to the silo. Once filled with grain the engine will push the cars back to the main brewing ... (more)

From the Trains magazine RGS 20 photoshoot at the Colorado RR Museum. We were treated to both a freight and a passenger train the first evening. In this view, 20 backs down to couple onto the pa... (more)

Coors switcher 997 (SW1000) heads towards the grain silo to pick up a string of cars and take back to the Molson Coors brewing facility.

Coors Critter 998 works the yard at the Molson Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado. The facility used three switcher engines to shuttle grain, move beer refers and exchange cars with the BNSF yard ... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 rounds a bend coming out of a cut as it climbs the grade to "No Agua" tank at the Colorado RR Museum. It's August 1st, and #20 is making its long anticipated pub... (more)

Flags and New Car Smell

Nearly new UP SD70ACe T4 leads empty coal destined for W. Elk from Cora, IL. Added at the last moment this afternoon at C&S Junction it was a last m... (more)