Denver & Rio Grande Western 491 passes the passenger platform as it makes another lap around the Colorado Railroad Museum trackage on a sunny spring afternoon.

Rio Grande Southern 20 and Denver & Rio Grande Western 491 rest on the point of their trains on a beautiful May morning.

Denver & Rio Grande Western 491 leads its freight train upgrade through The Cut on a sunny May afternoon.

Denver & Rio Grande Western 491 starts up the hill on a run around the Colorado Railroad Museum track.

Fireman Sam Kunugi shovels coal into Denver & Rio Grande Western 491's firebox on a cool May night.

Denver & Rio Grande Western 491 and Rio Grande Southern 20 simmer in the roundhouse on a cool May night.

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)