Pipe loads for the gas fields. D&RGW K-36 #488 charges westbound out of Lava Loop, with loads of steel pipe that are destined for gas drilling operations in the Farmington, NM area, the bet... (more)

Osier: Water for the horses. Baldwin K-36 #487 eases up to the old D&RG water tank at the depot in Osier Colorado. Once the home of a section crew, Osier was a convenient way-station for t... (more)

Photogenic Phantom. One of the two surviving Baldwin K-27 "Mudhens" rolls a consist of tanks and boxes westbound through Phantom Curve, just outside Osier, Colorado on a sunny, fall afterno... (more)

Phantom in the phall. The morning sun illuminates the Aspens as D&RGW Consolidation #315 leads a stock extra eastbound through Phantom Curve, en route to Antonito, CO.

Here comes the Silverton up from the canyon. A Durango & Silverton special passenger extra emerges from the Animas Canyon at the Timber Bridge just outside Silverton, Colorado, during Railf... (more)

First train of 2014 runs out of the Animas River Canyon and into Bakers Park on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad past Cataract Falls (Look above the rear cars)

Shortly before sunrise the 489 and a work train make a photo runby at Lava. In the background the San Luis Valley is covered by fog with a few hill tops looking like islands. Our train was heade... (more)

The snow flies and Engineer Max Casias watches intently as he makes another plunge into the deep snow drift, much as the DRGW might have cleared the line 60 years ago. It took five or six such pl... (more)

D&RGW narrow gauge K-36 480 simmers away in the roundhouse at Alamosa, Colo. before its run tomorrow to Chama, and then on to Durango. It would be the last winter D&RGW operated its narrow gauge... (more)

Laying on the smoke for the Railfans.... 487 Climbs Tanglefoot Curve under a smoke screen only the Steam Fan could appreciate.

Westbound around Los Pinos loop. In the old days this used to be a really dramatic location with a sweeping curve in a beautiful mountain meadow, but these days unless you want a number of rather... (more)

Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Locomotive Number 486 Leads the Morning Train to Cascade Canyon North through the Rocky Mountains just outside of Durango Colorado.

After A trip to the Cascade Canyon and back, the DSNG 482 Arrives back in Downtown Durango. The DSNG 482 has a wheel arrangement of 2-8-2 and was built by Baldwin in 1925 as DRGW 482.

This image is a bit of an experiment. This is just a very small portion of the full frame (thus some noise), and not the image I was trying to get. But the distant mountains looked nice, as did ... (more)

Freshly overhauled K-36 #489 is hauling a freight special over the old Lobato trestle. As mid engine K-36 #488 is helping moving the mixed freight train over the gradient. #489 has had it's firs... (more)