Routine servicing in Roaring Spring. With steam hissing softly from the snifter valves, Engineman Zach Hall services the grease fittings on the valve gear of Everett Railroad Mogul #11, as ... (more)

Picking up orders. With their locomotive stopped at Martinsburg Junction, PA (MP 21.5), the crew of Everett Railroad Mogul #11 converses with their dispatcher via the lineside telephone box... (more)

An old friend shines at first light. The first golden rays of sunlight on a frosty morning in Martinsburg, PA, illuminate an old friend of mine that I first met over half a century ago in N... (more)

"Came a mighty strange contraption known to trainmen as a motor". The lyrics of Colorado story-teller Bill Fries' (aka C.W. McCall) 1970s song "Gallopin' Goose" come to ... (more)

To Ridgway.....the hard way. A Rio Grande Southern freight, with RGS 10-Wheeler #20 on point, makes the long, 162 mile trek from Durango to Ridgway, Colorado, via Mancos, Dolores, Rico and ... (more)

Tackling the Dallas Divide. Colorado's aspens are putting on their annual fall show as this Rio Grande Southern freight, with Locomotive #20 in control, re-creates the climb up the Dallas D... (more)

Durango to Dolores. Charging through the colorful high country of southwestern Colorado, a Rio Grande Southern freight makes its way through Lost Canyon on a run from its terminal in Durang... (more)

The long road to Ridgway. Rio Grande Southern Locomotive #20 winds her way through Colorado's colorful high country, making the rather long and circuitous hike from Durango to Ridgway on a ... (more)

Fall color on the Rio Grande Southern. The aspens are in full bloom in Western Colorado as Rio Grande Southern 10-Wheeler #20 charges westward with a short freight on a cloudy morning in Se... (more)

The "Southern" heads west. Just before sunrise, on a cool, fall morning, Rio Grande Southern Locomotive #20 takes a short freight westbound, on a Lerro Photography Charter in Sept... (more)

Recreating an iconic RGS image. In February of 1942, the cover of Trains Magazine featured a very compelling photo of Rio Grande Southern 10-Wheeler #20, working hard as she helped a double... (more)

Charging through Phantom Canyon. Long-time Cumbres & Toltec Engineman Carlos Llamas is at the throttle of Rio Grande Southern Locomotive #20 as she charges through Phantom Canyon with her f... (more)

On a windy, somewhat rainy and chilly Sunday, WAMX 3870, and SOO Line 1003 pose for a photo next to the old Horicon depot, while WAMX 4187 (Grow Wisconsin), WAMX 6025, HLCX 6313 as well as various... (more)

SOO Line 1003 shows off her beauty on a freezing November afternoon as it does a Trains Magazine Photo Runby past a cemetery in town around a large curve, before shoving back and doing a second ru... (more)

Amid a grove of aspens. Rio Grande Southern Locomotives #20 and 455 and their freight train make their charge though the high country amid a grove of the iconic aspen trees which are so com... (more)