Along the old Colorado Midland
After Union Pacific closed Colorado’s Tennessee Pass as a through route on August 23, 1997, it still operated a once-a-week local from Pueblo to Malta, ... (more)

1895 D.& R.G. 425 pulled the MOW Friends of the C&T work extra North above Lobato trestle for ROW clearing before opening day on the C&TS. D&RGW 315 was recently backdated to her 1921 look and nu... (more)

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)

Evidently there are problems with the Amtrak diesels, so D&RGW has added a tunnel motor to keep the CZ rolling.

D&RGW 683 (2-8-0) was built in 1890 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and is the only surviving D&RGW Railroad standard gauge engine. She sits in the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado.

You can feel winters chill, from just looking at this picture of the Zephyr. It's the early morning at Colton, Utah 1978 in the Price River Canyon (Tom Ellis photo)

Live to Fight Another Day

The battle for the mountain was fought hard on this day, stopped by ice, tomorrow may bring victory. OY is slowly returning home after a day of ... (more)

This is one of my father's earliest pictures in Denver. PA-1 6003 leads a PB-1 on a passenger train at Denver Union Station circa 1960. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo

On the Turntable

Moving off the turntable, DRGW 346 steams up the entire pit and area with its own weather system. Heavy snow swirls in the headlight chilling the photogr... (more)

346 in Snow

The heavy snow has just begun to fall as the Colorado Railroad Museum finishes the day’s operations with the venerable Denver & Rio Grande Western 346. A fe... (more)

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)

Conejoes County Glint in Steam

Easily be 1945 again as number 453 moves a manifest up the San Juan Extension nearing the dual gauge at Antinito on a very border sunset of ... (more)

Service stop and watering of the D&RGW Zephyr at Grand Junction, here the passenger cars Silver Pine and Silver Colt.

Helper from Helper

In a view from the Dutch door of Rio Grande Zephyr dome-observation Silver Sky, a westbound Rio Grande pig train ascends the storied Soldier Summit... (more)