Misty Mountain Hop

The remnants of Tropical Storm / Hurricane Nora which had made its way up from Mexico and Arizona have reached the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. The weath... (more)

Constellation

Merriam-Webster has one of the definitions of 'Constellation' to be: an assemblage, collection, or group of usually related persons, qualities, or things.... (more)

Road To The Multiverse

Evoking an alternate reality, Durango and Silverton masquerades as her former self enroute into Silverton. As a Rio Grande locomotive, the 493 never mad... (more)

Rockwood!

Rounding Granite Point / Mini High Line / Elbert Creek, Denver and Rio Grande Western K-37 493 rounds the shelf track here above Shalona Lake. This charter train dep... (more)

Rocks Ahead!

Re-creating an iconic photo that graced the front cover to Trains Magazine in 1942, the newly restored Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 No. 20 poses as a brakeman sits on... (more)

"Way Out West, there’s room for our dreaming…

Winding along the lava escarpments that make up the Colorado/New Mexico border, 1875 built Eureka and Glenbrook make thei... (more)

"It's Only a Model"

Silhouetted against the New Mexico sky, Eureka and Palisade #4 rounds the high fill near Big Horn, New Mexico on its eastbound journey towards Ant... (more)

From Right to Left, Eureka and Palisade #4 (1875), Florence and Cripple Creek/Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 #20 (1899), D&RG/D&RGW 168, and Florence and Cripple Creek/D&RG 425 (aka, D&RGW 315)

Eureka!
From the Baldwin Graduate Class of 1875, Eureka and Palisade #4 and 2-6-0 “Glenbrook” gallop over the Cumbres and Toltec.

Racing home and dodge the annual monsoon thunderstorms, Amtrak's Train 3, The Westbound Southwest Chief roars off the base of Glorieta Pass. This spot can be seen as the actual beginning of the p... (more)

Ridin' the storm out, waitin' for the thaw out On a full moon night in the Rocky Mountain winter...

While it's not the winter, we're under the full moon of a Rocky Mountain summ... (more)

Little Depot in the Sky

A top the highest active railroad in the United States is the Cumbres Depot, nee Section House, straddling the divide at Cumbres Pass, elevation 10,015 fe... (more)

The Engineer

Just before pulling on the throttle, the engineer of Rio Grande Southern 20 looks back for the highball from the conductor. The engineer here is well known in the... (more)

The Meet at No Agua

During the Triple Steam Up Weekend at the Colorado Railroad Museum, Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 #20 overtakes Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 #346 at the No... (more)

Misnomer

- A misnomer is a name that is incorrectly or unsuitably applied.

There's one somewhere in this photo, see if you can find it. This weekend at the Colorado ... (more)