Servicing on the Silverton Wye SouthWestRails.com
First time in Steam in 57 Years...only to be dampend by a plugged injector...at least we saw her move!
Get your dose of steam...repeated daily, Late May through Mid October...every year.
Durango and Silverton 482 leads the first train of the 2014 Summer Season into Rockwood Colorado.
Goodnight Moon The moon rises over the east siding switch of Chapelle in one of the last fleeing days of these iconic signals. The 'Southern Infestation' of signals from Las V... (more)
From Right to Left, Eureka and Palisade #4 (1875), Florence and Cripple Creek/Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 #20 (1899), D&RG/D&RGW 168, and Florence and Cripple Creek/D&RG 425 (aka, D&RGW 315)
29 and Train 29 North Pound just south of Milepost 19 on a test run to the Grand Canyon
On her "Maiden (revenue) Voyage" since being repainted. GCRy 6793 is seen coming off the Imbleau Grade (Apex) and into the ghost town of Anita. And if it wasnt for the fact that we put that B-Un... (more)
The Last (Last, Last) Full Moon on The Rise (?) In what’s sounding like a broken record, the easternmost blade on NMRX’s Railroad greets the second full moon of 2023, the ‘... (more)
Taken from just below Windy Point, the 487 is seen crossing Highway 17 with many railfans gathered.
Racing towards the sunset at 90mph, Amtrak's Southwest Chief leaves the Rio Grande Rift as the last light hits the clouds above New Mexico's Manzano Mountains.
Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-2 #484 drifts past "Perry's Pond" at Coxo Crossing.
Pulling out of the Shadow of the Strater Hotel, Train #462 Pulled by K-36 #482, leaves for Silverton. SouthWestRails.Com
Fall, 1949, finds an Eastbound Denver and Rio Grande Western mixed train crossing the "high bridge" between Tacoma and Rockwood.
