Cotton Candy Skies

The brisk fall morning breaks over Colorado's San Luis Valley in the late 1800's as the daily train on the Denver and Rio Grande makes its way from Denver vi... (more)

DRGW 493 north at Whitehead Gultch

Florence & Cripple Creek took delivery of the "Elkton" in 1895. After the tracks washed out, the Consolidation was purchased by the Denver & Rio Grande and number 425. In 1924 it became... (more)

Two Ten-Wheelers, Rio Grande Southern 20 and Rio Grande Western 168, stand outside the C&TS shop in Antonito. Although they appear similar in size, there is almost twenty years of steam technolog... (more)

DRGW 493 heads south past the old Needleton Tank

High above DRGW's highline, DRGW 493 with a mixed freight heads south around the Horseshoe

DRGW 493 crosses the soon to be replaced Timber Bridge over the Animas

Rio Grande Alco PA-1 6013, here sunning itself at Denver Union Station on May 18, 1959. From my collection, Photo by Lou Schmitz.

On the first day of the Trains Magazine charter, DRGW 493 rounds the bend at Granite Point/Elbert Creek/Mini Highline with a mixed freight consist in tow

Crew shot to end the charter on the Highline's horseshoe curve

With rain starting to move in, DRGW 493 heads south over the "new" Twin Bridge

It's been 14 year since the SP, Rio Grande merger at the time of this photo. Seven since Union Pacific took over. Don't tell the boys in Helper, Utah the Rio Grande doesn't exist anymore. They gat... (more)

Constellation

Merriam-Webster has one of the definitions of 'Constellation' to be: an assemblage, collection, or group of usually related persons, qualities, or things.... (more)

Road To The Multiverse

Evoking an alternate reality, Durango and Silverton masquerades as her former self enroute into Silverton. As a Rio Grande locomotive, the 493 never mad... (more)