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.
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