DRG&W #485 under starry, starry skies. Lighting by God, flash, by Lerro Productions. DRG&W #489 as #485, if just for 48 hours.

Topping Cumbres Pass. Coming out of the shadows of Tanglefoot Curve, a D&RGW Freight enters the evening sunlight at the 10,020 foot-level....the summit of Cumbres Pass. Shortly, she'll cro... (more)

DRG&W #487 with it's freight sits in the siding giving priority to DRG&W #485 with a passenger train bound for Chama. Just another day on the DRG&W, as it has been for over a 100 years.

In the snowshed at Cumbres Pass. Denver & Rio Grande Western #485 sits with her freight on a snowshed-covered leg of the Cumbres Pass Wye waiting for traffic to pass. For pretty obvious r... (more)

Steamscape - Tanglefoot Curve. Denver & Rio Grande Western #485 works upgrade westbound on Tanglefoot Curve with an afternoon freight bound for Cumbres Pass and Chama. For the first day o... (more)

Behind the scenes: Charter extraordinaire, Pete Lerro at it again. While patrons slept nice and comfortably, DRGW #489 was secretly transformed into famed DRGW #485, the engine that fell ... (more)

After shooting the Los Pinos water tank with the Milky Way in 2010, I then wanted to shoot a steam locomotive in the same fashion. It would be nearly a year and a half later when I would get my ch... (more)

K-36 481 waits in front of the Durango depot at the head of the first train of the morning. Note the shiny new boiler front paint. 481 was repainted on 8/17 for Railfest.

The D&RGW on parade. Denver & Rio Grande Western Consolidation #315 brings her period passenger consist into the Durango Yard during the 2010 Railfest "Parade of Trains". During a 30 minu... (more)

Evening arrival in Silverton. The Durango Railroad Historical Society's restored C-18 Class Consolidation #315 comes out of the shadows of the Animas Canyon and enters the evening light in ... (more)

Mudhen in the rain. In a steady downpour, the Huckleberry Railroad's noontime excursion train rounds the turning loop at the east end of the line and heads back toward Crossroads Village. ... (more)

D&RGW #346 makes a circle of the very nice Colorado Railroad Museum during one of their steam-up days.

Eastbound and westbound trains of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad meet at Osier, CO and are waiting for passengers to reboard after eating lunch.

Ex-D&RGW K-36 #489 pulls the day's train outbound from Chama up Cumbres Pass. Of note is that the tender of 489 is now lettered for the C&TS, when in past years the tenders were lettered for the R... (more)

Florence & Cripple Creek 4-6-0 No. 20 was built by Schenectady in 1899. In 1916, F&CC No. 20 was sold to the Rio Grande Southern and it spent the next 35 years on the Silver San Juan Route. After ... (more)