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Engineer Soni Honegger has climbed onto the pilot to change out a headlamp on D&RGW 315. This 2009 Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec special has backe... (more)

D&RGW #485 (with #489 playing the part!) has almost reached the top of Cumbres Pass. We're trackside right at Windy Point for this view of the final pull to the top. Shot during a Lerro Producti... (more)

Nevada Northern's #93, here lettered for one of its former owners - Nevada Consolidated Copper Company - pulls the Steptoe Valley Flyer consist past the icicle laden freight house in East Ely. Wi... (more)

C&TS #484 passes the double spout water tank in the Chama yard as it approaches the yard throat. The morning train to Antonito Colorado is on its way. Next stop for passengers - Osier, Colorado.

She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain...

Our stock special is coming around a bend still high above the Rio de los Piños between Cascade Trestle and the los Piños tank. From a 201... (more)

We've just left Ely and are approaching Tunnel 1 up Robinson Canyon. Our work train lead by KCC #93 features NN's 100 ton steam wrecking crane "A", its tender and assorted other cars. From the s... (more)

It's late afternoon in the East Ely yard and activity is picking up, as NN #40 brings in a mixed train from Cobre, while Alcos RS-3 #109 and RS-2 #105 get ready to depart with a string of empty or... (more)

It's autumn in the Rocky Mountains, and the annual fall stock rush is in full swing on the D&RGW. Of course, these days the "stock" consists of tourists coming to look at fall colors in the high ... (more)

From a Trains Magazine photoshoot in Ely, NV celebrating the return to service of Baldwin Consolidation #81, and the 81st anniversary of Trains Magazine. The weather forcast was pretty dire, but t... (more)

Cumbres Silhouette

At the end of a long day of shooting on a Lerro Productions two day event on the C&TS, we set up for a star shot. With 2-8-2 #489 (today lettered for the ... (more)

As the sun sets, Nevada Northern Alco RS-3 #109 and Alco RS-2 #105 lead a string of empty ore cars out of the East Ely yard headed for the mine at Ruth. 2020 Nevada Northern winter photo spectacu... (more)

From the Trains magazine RGS 20 photoshoot at the Colorado RR Museum. We were treated to both a freight and a passenger train the first evening. In this view, 20 backs down to couple onto the pa... (more)

A view of the wooden trestle across the Los Pinos river during the first day of the Toltec Rattler Redux event. While the weather is slowly improving, clouds from the storm which brought the first... (more)

There's been a wreck on the Nevada Northern up at the mine in Ruth and NN steam Wrecking Crane A, its tender and assorted other cars have been called out to set things right. A beautiful simulati... (more)

After getting thoroughly soaked shooting in pouring rain, I've taken shelter under the coaling tower, trading the hazard of raindrops for the possibility of light to moderate bird droppings. The ... (more)