One of the steam engines operated by the Georgetown Loop Railroad is an ex Guatemala Railway 2-8-0 built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1920. It is seen here passing over the Devils Gate Trestle,... (more)

The caboose is connected and its time for the engineer to mount up and take the Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) to the Colorado Railroad Museum station for the morning's first passenger trip. The... (more)

It's a beautiful mid-summer morning as former Westside Lumber Company Shay #12 backs its train over the Devil's Gate high bridge headed for Devil's Gate station on the Georgetown Loop.

Former IRCA locomotive #40 backs its train down the Georgetown Loop's Devil's Gate High Bridge. It is the final day of operation for the original loop operator, and all three loop locomotives are... (more)

C&TS #488 is the helper today on this early June doubleheader, with #487 as the road engine. Pictured here at Coxo, the train will enter a sharp curve just behind my location, cross Wolf Creek on... (more)

A charter makes its way down from Cumbres Pass in this early June view, shot just up the line from Coxo Crossing. A couple of things of note here - on point is newly rebuilt #488 and in the consi... (more)

I was traveling to Chama, NM early on a Friday evening to spend a weekend shooting fall colors on the C&TS when I ran into a surprise as I crested Cumbres Pass on Hwy 17. A short eastbound train ... (more)

We had great snow for the 2005 Durango & Silverton Winter Photographer's special. Almost too much in places. Fortunately the D&S crews have done a great job packing snow down at runby locations ... (more)

“Proud as a Peacock, and struttin’ Her Stuff”

Locomotive No. 493 of the Durango and Silverton Railroad makes her return to active service after fifty-two years this weeke... (more)

Sunrise at Ferguson's. DRGW K-27 Mudhen #453 steps across Ferguson's Trestle at MP 285.87, just moments after sunrise, hauling a freight westbound toward Chama and Durango, via Cumbres Pass... (more)

The second train of the day pulls out of Silverton on its return trip to Durango on a crystal clear autumn afternoon.

Durango & Silverton K-36 No. 481 passes the Yard-Limit sign at the southern end of Rockwood as it returns to Durango from Silverton. This is the first of two daily trains, departing 45-minutes pri... (more)

K36's #480 is south bound with train 463 just south of the Shalona Lake crossing of County Rd 250.

Union Pacific No. 844, sparkling clean and fresh from a long overhaul. Burning clean and blistering the rails on the Greely Subdivision the 4-8-4 races to Denver with the Frontier train.

Union Pacific 844 moving through Carr Colorado