Taken in the Remote Animas Canyon, this spot was accessed by riding RGS Galloping Goose # 5

It's 3am...and the last of the air has finally escaped from the locomotive's main resivors... Within a few hours the sun will come up over Williams...and and two 13 car trains ,The "Williams Flye... (more)

D&RGW 487, the helper locomotive has ran "light" across the Lobato Trestle due to weight restrictions...while the 488 and 484 begine to lug the 32 car freight train over the trestle

The Clash of Generations. Here Baldwin K-36 480 prepares to depart Durango as her older sister, Baldwin's 1875 "Eureka", Eureka & Palisade #4 also prepares for its journey.

Conductor Phil Piet brings GCR 29 into Car Shop Track #1 to grab its train that it will haul to the Canyon... It's a cold morning, and there's icicles hanging off of the rear of the tender and th... (more)

Nighttime at the Durango Roundhouse, with 480 in the Service Bay, 482, and a friend from Long ago, Denver and Rio Grande Western 315 all in steam in Durango...

Cascade Chasm

Cumbres and Toltec 487, a Mikado built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western, steams across Cascade Trestle between Osier and Cumbres Colorado.

Eureka and Palisades #4 crosses the Animas River on its Northbound journey on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

Descending through the storm. A light rain envelopes "Perry's Pond" and its environs as a westbound train decends Cumbres Pass in 1940... Er, 2014, with a load of pipe for the Oil Fie... (more)

Taken from the Colorado Trail Bridge over the Animas River. SouthWestRails.com

Up From Durango…

A near rivet counting perfect re-creation of the 1970s era Silverton train makes its way through Needleton on its way to Silverton on a beautiful October day

On the Durango Ready Track. SouthWestRails.Com

Preparing for the day's Photo special, the sun has just risen over the mountains.