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.

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.

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)

A daily passenger service on the D&SNGRR headed by locomotive 486 approaches the station at Rockwood. After Rockwood the train will enter the Animas Canyon and the signature "Highline" p... (more)

The regular D&SNG passenger train behind K-36 locomotive 480 passes "Extra E&P #4", a photo special with Dan Markoff's Eureka & Palisade Number 4, "The Eureka", a wood-burning ... (more)

Diesels on "The Silverton": Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad locomotive #7, "Big Al", pulls recently-shopped passenger cars #331 "Trimble" and #336 "Roc... (more)

The D&SNG employees who worked the annual Fall Photographer's Special pose for the traditional group photograph at Milepost 469.5. This was the first of two completely sold-out Fall Photo Trains ... (more)

Work Extra 473 East has just entered Durango yard limits and is crossing the Animas River for the last time today. This was the second of two completely sold-out Fall Photo Trains run by the D&SN... (more)

D&SNG K-28 #473 turns on the Elk Park Wye (Milepost 490.67) as the photoline gets their shots. This was the D&SNG's 26th Annual Fall Photo Train event.

Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train No. 461 clings to cliff’s edge along the High Line north (timetable west) of Rockwood, Colorado, on the morning of August 14, 2015.

A passing view of the Animas River on the open platform of Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s business car B-2 “Cinco Animas” near Cascade siding, Colorado, on August 13, 2015.

With the Animas River 400 feet below, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge train No. 461 crawls along the High Line just north (timetable west) of Rockwood, Colorado, on the morning of August 14, 2015... (more)