A single passenger awaits an eastbound Keystone Express as a Conrail local switches the M&M-Mars Candy Co. siding. The 7558, originally built by EMD as a GP9 in November of 1955, was numbered 703... (more)

It's a mostly cloudy July morning as Cumbres & Toltec K-36 No. 489 leads the fireman/engineer school train up the grade towards Cumbres Pass at Dalton, New Mexico on July 21, 2015.

The snow has been coming down hard all morning, but the clouds are lifting a bit as the Durango & Silverton's Cascade Canyon winter train departs Rockwood station.

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train No. 464 passes through a cut exiting the High Line just west (north) of Rockwood, Colorado, on August 14, 2015.

As the water of the Rio de los Pinos gentle meanders down stream a pair of Rio Grande Baldwin built K-36s march up stream with a 'Chama Steam' photo charter freight near Los Pinos, CO. Both locomo... (more)

In July 1969 the Rio Grande was granted permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon their narrow gauge lines in Colorado and New Mexico, with the exception of the Silverton branc... (more)

By the late 1950s the final chapter had been written for mainline steam in North America, with the happy exception of those retained for excursion and public relation services, lines of dead steam... (more)

Peacefully simmering under a full moon lit sky, Rio Grande K-36 #489 sits at the head of a eastbound manifest at the Chama coaling tower, awaiting a highball to tackle the 10,000' Cumbres Pass on ... (more)

Sitting in Chama, New Mexico, a Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad train, led by 2-8-2 489, waits to depart. This former Rio Grande K-36 Mikado (the last of ten built by Baldwin in 1925) looks mass... (more)

Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train No. 463 crawls along the High Line west (north) of Rockwood, Colorado, on a beautiful August 14, 2015, morning. The off-color water flowing in the Animas i... (more)

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.

The newest Veterans Unit skirts the Pacific Ocean through San Clemente.

Denver & Rio Grande Western K-36's #485 and #487 get in position next to the coal tower for servicing prior to their next assignment that will likely include surmounting the grades of the San Juan... (more)

Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train No. 462 is along the Animas River below towering cliffs east (south) of milepost 477 between Cascade Canyon and Tall Timber, Colorado, on the afte... (more)