Union Pacific's Colorado Springs local is headed up the Roswell Spur behind a Rio Grande GP40-2. The train is about to cross under N Cascade Ave, shortly after entering the spur from the Colorado... (more)

Union Pacific's "Dirt Train" is led by a typical (for the era) three-pack of Rio Grande tunnel motors as the train approaches the disposal site in East Carbon. The snow-covered Wasatch ... (more)

Union Pacific's Colorado Springs Local delivers box cars to a customer siding off the Roswell Spur on the north end of Colorado Springs. This siding is located off N El Paso Street and is no long... (more)

In light snow the Colorado Railroad Museum's DRGW 491 (2-8-2) makes a run to the water tower. It will spend the day giving rides to those lucky enough to venture out in the snow to see this incre... (more)

Engineer Mel Baughman pauses outside the depot at Helper, Utah, with Rio Grande SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motors” sitting in the yard behind him on October 5, 2004. Mel was born in Rifle, Colorado, on N... (more)

Pounding the rail above Lobato Trestle, a Learro Photo Special makes a splendid morning climb up the 4% grade. The train replicates a late steam Cumbres Turn. I thought the Friends of the Cumbr... (more)

The sixth eastbound train on the Modoc Line after the SP/DRGW merger descends Viewland Hill near Wendel, California. Mothballed between Wendel and Alturas, California in January 1987, the Modoc wa... (more)

One of the first eastbound trains on the Modoc Line after the SP/DRGW merger nears a crew change at Wendel, California.

It's a bitter cold and snowy morning as Denver & Rio Grande Western #491 leaves the warm confines of the roundhouse at the Colorado Railroad Museum and creeps onto the turntable.

If one did not know better you would think this is a pic of winter operations in the early 1900's. With bitter cold temperatures and falling snow, the Colorado Ralroad Museum staff muscle the tur... (more)

Falling snow and temperature in the 20's help DRGW 491 put on a steam show at the Colorado Railroad Museum. The Baldwin 2-8-2 was built in 1902 as a Class C-41 standard gauge locomotive. It was re... (more)

A Rio Grande 144 train rounds the first eastbound horseshoe curve at Gilluly.

I was just a kid and using my father's Voigtlander camera on occasion. We were fortunate to see Rio Grande No.1, the "Royal Gorge", as it made its scheduled stop in the depths of the Ark... (more)

The West Local powered by Rio Grande GP30 Nos. 3002 and 3006 travels Rocky Spur above an eastbound coal train led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 267, that is tied down in Rocky siding, on Feb... (more)

Rio Grande’s first EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor,” No. 5341, leads Union Pacific’s MDVRO manifest freight westbound just west of Rollinsville, Colorado, on September 22, 1998. Trailing No. 534... (more)