During the Aspen season, the Helper set makes its way through Pando, on its way back from Tennessee Pass to Minturn. The set includes two of the six CN GP40-2L locomotives, which were on test on t... (more)

Side on view of 5408 leading Mopac 6010, 6006, 6036 and 6050 on 788 coal from Cameo heading east alongside the Colorado River in De Beque Canyon.

From my first trip up Tennessee Pass - 5396, 3002 and 3023 arrive in the siding at Pando to set out the track machine behind the locos.

3085, 3073, 3053 plus two other locos highball through Troublesome siding with an eastbound freight just after the line reopened after a maintenance shutdown in May 1981.

Something I didn't see often at all, during my year chasing the D&RGW for 12 months during 1981/2, were block grain trains - 5343, 3039, 3030, 3091 and 3108 pass the AMAX yard at Kremmling with a ... (more)

Having dropped off it's passengers at Winter Park, 3122 and 3121 slow to a stand with the empty Ski Train at Tabernash, before reversing around the wye and waiting for the late afternoon return.

5351, 5390, 5393, 5342 and 5369 head an eastbound loaded coal out of Hot Sulphur Springs.

5413, 5412 and 3039 slip under the I70, as they follow the Eagle River into Minturn, with #36 eastbound freight. The first and last locomotives, I believe, are still with us today, 5413 with the W... (more)

3090, 3112, 3085 and 3100 await crew change at Minturn Yard with the second half of #790 eastbound coal. In the distance the 8 helpers prepare to be cut in (3002, 3060, 3021, 3051, 3059, 3025, 311... (more)

3117 and 3098 approach Woodside, UT, with a short local freight as clouds tip over the Book Cliffs in the background.

A brief storm passed through but the sun followed producing a fantastic scene with double rainbows. I had always wanted to visit the famed Tennessee pass. I finally made it but just a few years t... (more)

Although traffic on the legendary Tennessee Pass is dead, the line is not gone. The Rio Grande's Tennessee Pass line was the highest active mainline railroad mountain pass in the United States unt... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's #491 sits in the roundhouse of the Colorado Railroad Museum, waiting for its turn to run laps around the museum grounds.

I was on my way to Phippsburg and Craig, CO to work vacation vacancies as a D&RGW agent/operator and stopped at Orestod, CO. A coal train down from Phippsburg joins the mainline along the banks of... (more)

One of the fan favorites at the Colorado Railroad Museum is Denver & Rio Grande Western #5771 (EMD F9), which used to run the Rio Grande Zephyr between Denver, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah. ... (more)