On January 9, 1998, Rio Grande GP40 No. 3075 and Cotton Belt GP40-2 No. 7291 power a five-car local of zinc concentrate along the Arkansas River through Browns Canyon, Colorado. For a year-and-a-h... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP60 Nos. 3155 and 3154 power a summer edition of the Rio Grande Ski Train downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 5, 2000. For a short while anyway, these ... (more)

With Union Pacific LJP44 “dirt train” local from Salt Lake City late this particular morning, still crossing the grade over Soldier Summit, the LJP45 local out of Helper had some time to kill ... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum's Denver & Rio Grande Western #318 (a Baldwin 2-8-0 built in 1896) has been moved to the track adjacent to the roundhouse.

DRGW 491, a 2-8-2 locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1902, runs past the functional water tower at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

The snowfall blankets two Denver & Rio Grande Western engines from different eras.

The Colorado Railroad Museum's DRGW tunnel motor #5401 (SD40T-2) looks quite at home in the snow as it falls fast in Golden, Colorado.

During an incredibly windy, frigid and hostile springtime snowstorm in April 1984, a Rio Grande coal train led by EMD SD40T-2 No. 5349, is about to enter the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel departing East... (more)

Rio Grande EMD SD45 5331 is westbound at Desert i on a fine afternoon in the spring of 1979.

When I first visited the USA toghether with a friend in summer 1991, we stopped our camping bus at the Tennessee pass railway of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad overnight. In the mornin... (more)

That 70's Show

A near rivet counting perfect re-creation of the 1970s era Silverton train heads south over 'Twin Bridges', a 1960's era realignment on the Silverton Branch when... (more)

An eastbound manifest on the Modoc Line reverses direction at Likely Loop. The train is just starting the climb to the summit at Sage Hen, twelve miles and 880 feet of elevation distant.

Pickup for Silverton...

A near rivet counting perfect re-creation of the 1970s era Silverton train is guided to an easy stop by Brakeman Nick Battelo giving the hand signs to t... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train approaches Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, early on the morning of December 28, 2000. A third EMD Ski Train EMD F40PH is out for maintenance, with Rio Grande EM... (more)

A trio of Rio Grande EMD GP40-2 take Union Pacific’s West local eastbound out of Rocky, Colorado, back to Denver on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on October 18, 2001.