It's the golden hour in Golden Colorado and DRGW 5401 is seen stuffed and mounted at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Parked on the whiskers of the turntable in Southern Pacific’s Bakersfield yard are a pair of consecutively numbered Denver & Rio Grande Western GP35s: 3044 and 3045. What were the odds? By th... (more)

The Rio Grande has the Wasatch Mountains to cross and the top is called Soldier Summit. The base of the grade where it starts is Helper, Utah. Hence the name where helpers are added to trains to m... (more)

A variety of vintage power and cars sit next to DRGW 3011 (GP30) at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado.

On December 12, 1962, an unusually heavy No.1 headed around the curve at Palmer Lake with PA-PB and two F7A's. The train size that day would appear to be occasioned by Christmas season mail, a... (more)

At he start of its day long trip from Denver to Craig, Colorado is the 2 car westbound YAMPA VALLEY MAIL, train No.9 on November 5,1961. On the point is PA 6001, sporting the single stripe PRO... (more)

Now a museum piece in Ogden, Utah. D&RGW 5371 with fellow tunnel motors 5349 and 5390 are working on the dirt train in October of 2004. It was too good to be true this safe haven of Rio Grande tun... (more)

Rio Grande SD45 5329 and first of the SD45s, the 5315 was delivered in January 1967, leads a pair of Geeps on a westbound coal train at Grand Junction, Colorado on January 1, 1969. Photo by F.H.... (more)

With Blanca Peak in the background, three ex Rio Grande boxcars sit left in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains'. This was all once heavy Rio Grande territory before the UP took over. As DRGW histo... (more)

Steamscape: The Highline. Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #477 takes a Durango-bound mixed train through the most famous stretch of track on the 45-mile Silverton Branch, that being the hi... (more)

Take on some water at the Needleton Tank... After a water stop in the Animas wilderness at Needleton Tank (MP 484.4), Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #477 begins to accelerate her mixed tr... (more)

Crossing the Rio de los Pinos. A Rio Grande freight rumbles across the timber trestle that spans the Rio de los Pinos at Milepost 324.52, as it works north in the valley named for this rive... (more)

The sun is setting as the Colorado Railroad Museum's Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's #491 (2-8-2) heads to the depot where it will give rides as part of the annual Polar Express train. The... (more)

Homeward bound. The late afternoon shadows are rapidly swallowing up the high desert landscape outside Antonito, Colorado, as the Cumbres & Toltec's vintage 10-wheeler #168 brings her consi... (more)

Time travelers. Reliving a scene right out of the late 1880s, Denver & Rio Grande Locomotive #168 takes a vintage passenger train west through the Southern Colorado desert at Milepost 285.6... (more)