Early in the morning, Rio Grande 3090 East, a 144 train, climbs the grade at Chicken Hollow, UT. Note how green and strewn with wildflowers the surrounding landscape is. The rains have been good t... (more)

A string of Rio Grande SW-1000s moves through the diesel service area in Denver.

A variety of Rio Grande and one SP diesel locomotives at the diesel service area in Denver.

A father and his boys stroll past the last surviving standard gauge engine of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. DRGW 683 (2-8-0) was built in 1890 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and oper... (more)

Couplers between two Rio Grande gons show wear, chipping paint and the indelible link between all cars that make a train as seen in Chama Yard in New Mexico in July 1981. Even though these coupler... (more)

A Denver & Rio Grande Western passenger special hurries westbound through Arvada, Colorado, on the morning of July 11, 1987. Rio Grande EMD GP40-2 No. 3116 and GP40 No. 3136 power the short three-... (more)

GP40-2 No. 3090 leads a Rio Grande 144 train as it approaches Gilluly, UT. Soon the railroad will pass under Highway 6 and head in the opposite direction as part of the "loops" the railr... (more)

In the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s enginehouse at Antonito, Colorado, Rio Grande 4-6-0 T-12 No. 168 undergoes an extensive restoration on June 6, 2018. The three-foot gauge Ten-Wheeler wa... (more)

In the car shop at Antonito, Colorado, on June 4, 2018, Denver & Rio Grande Western RPO No. 65 (065 in work service) get totally rebuilt by the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. The 3-foot gauge c... (more)

These two trains were heading west, side by side, down the Rio Grande's two-track main line in Spanish Fork Canyon. On track #1 was a Utah Ry. loaded coal train; on track #2 was a Rio Grande piggy... (more)

Under threatening skies, Rio Grande and UP power leads an SP eastbound over the westbound main at Rocklin, CA. The eastbound is on the "uphill" track, installed in the early part of the... (more)

With temperatures well below freezing, a quartet of Rio Grande tunnel motors pull an eastbound UP manifest through Golconda, NV. The line follows the circuitous route of the meandering and bracki... (more)

As a Santa Fe westbound rolls downhill with coiled steel near the head end, an SP work train waits to exit the short siding. Up to the early 1980s, both the north and shorter south siding were con... (more)

Outside the Alamosa shops ready to head West to Chama

Rio Grande coal train at the very high point of Soldier Summit. This train loaded on the Pleasant Valley branch; destination not known. Scanned from a color print.