On the pass at Lizard Head. Although I attend numerous historic re-creation events every year, the vast majority of the photos we take still have pretty obvious clues in them that they were... (more)
We don't need water today. Rio Grande Southern Motor #5 (aka "Galloping Goose") rumbles past the water column adjacent to the section house on the 10,015 ft. high Cumbres Pass (MP 330.7) du... (more)
"Came a mighty strange contraption known to trainmen as a motor". The lyrics of Colorado story-teller Bill Fries' (aka C.W. McCall) 1970s song "Gallopin' Goose" come to ... (more)
Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) gets a spin on the turn table in preparation for a day of running passengers around the grounds of the Colorado Railroad Museum.
The Colorado Railroad Museum’s Rio Grande Southern #20 gets a spin on the turn table under light snow. The engine was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works was built in 1899 for the Florenc... (more)