The heavy snow from the March ‘Snowmageddon’ storm that pounded Colorado’s Front Range provided a thick layer if icing on the vintage power in the Colorado Railroad Museum’s grounds. In t... (more)

Fireman loading coal into 491s boiler

Rio Grande Southern 491 and 346 In Roundhouse

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)

Rio Grande Southern #20 rounds a bend coming out of a cut as it climbs the grade to "No Agua" tank at the Colorado RR Museum. It's August 1st, and #20 is making its long anticipated pub... (more)

It's Sunday morning on the 2nd of August and the crew is preparing RGS #20 for the day's excursions during the celebration of #20's return to service at the Colorado Railroad Museum. The conducto... (more)

Fall & Winter Mingle at the Tank

Fall color mingles with Winter at the water tank. Rio Grande Southern 20 is just lifting off with a flurry of steam among the snow flurries.

The Right Stuff

Legends unit at the Colorado Railroad Museum to operate a living legend RGS 20.

Snow, steam, Fall color, and RGS 20

A superb blessing of early snow and wintery weather helped mellow the forest fires of northern Colorado and bless those of us who worship t... (more)

Legends in the Snow

A superb blessing of early snow and wintery weather helped mellow the forest fires of northern Colorado and bless those of us who worship the steam and ste... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum's newest addition to their fleet of operating steam locomotives, Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0), backs up to the water tower on the museum grounds.

At the end of a long day running the newly restored Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) and giving rides to hundreds, the team at the Colorado Railroad Museum provide a little human power to repositio... (more)

RGS #20 does a blow-down on the turntable. Note the awkward position the fireman is in in the tight deckless cab. The valve is NOT in an ergonomically friendly location. From the Trains magazin... (more)

Beauty and the Geese Beautiful 10-wheeler RGS #20 poses in all of its newly restored glory between two of its long time "Galloping Goose" workmates - Work Goose #6 and Goose #7 w... (more)

RGS Twenty

The return of Rio Grande Southern #20 on the Trains Magazine with Jim Wrinn and the Colorado Railroad Museum photo spectacular Aug 1st was a sell out exciting an... (more)