After one "normal" runby, the crew of the Photo special, showed off by exceding the speed limit (just a little) and blowing off the boiler, giving off a man made rainbow. Railroad: Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Rockwood, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: 478
Train ID: Extra 472 West
Photo Date: September 25, 2005

A Dreamscape View... Next-door to a Nightmare..

The Milky Way rises in the southern sky on the Great Plains of New Mexico. It's a little after Three AM, and we see the classic ... (more)

Approach, Clear, Galaxy.

Railfan and Railroad's 2020 Center Spread 3rd Place Winner

Ancient Semaphores guard the the galactic core of the Milky Way as i... (more)

K-36 #481 crosses the Animas River on The "High Bridge" South of Tacoma

New Kid in Town

One of these is not like the others. Durango and Silverton DL535 No. 107 sits on a ready track at the Durango Roundhouse on a strangely quiet late summer after... (more)

The Sanctum of the Leviathans

Railfan and Railroad's 2021 Center Spread 3rd Place Winner

Rockwood!

Rounding Granite Point / Mini High Line / Elbert Creek, Denver and Rio Grande Western K-37 493 rounds the shelf track here above Shalona Lake. This charter train dep... (more)

There Goes The Last DJ...

The last hurrah for coal burning on the Durango and Silverton as K-36, #481 takes charge of the 2024 Winter Photographer's Train for what will be the ... (more)

D&SNG 473 Pulls the Presidential Special underneath the Spectacular (This time of the Year) Cataract Falls at MP 494.8, two miles south of Silverton. Most of the time, this falls is either slowed... (more)

Wagons East!!!

For years, I've joked with fellow coworker and RailPictures contribuitor Elijah Cross about getting a very long telephoto lens and shooting the intermediate pai... (more)

Livin' On The Edge

The cool, crisp air of the Animas Canyon is ruled by the sounds of the raging Rio de Las Animas. It rules the night air here, drowning out much of anything ... (more)

Little Depot in the Sky

A top the highest active railroad in the United States is the Cumbres Depot, nee Section House, straddling the divide at Cumbres Pass, elevation 10,015 fe... (more)

A Big Boy in The Land of The Gila Monster.

For the first time since the close of the steam era, an articulated steam locomotive took to the rails in Southeastern Arizona.
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The Little Train to Oblivion. Denver and Rio Grande Western #463 leads a circa 1939 train out of Antonito westward.

Now it's 400 Feet Straight Down*

Easing around the famed Horseshoe Curve on the Denver and Rio Grande Western's Silverton Branch we catch K37 493 rounding out the bend from Roc... (more)