One of three Rio Grande's 3 GP60s leads a manifest south at Colorado Springs under threatening skies. I am not exactly sure what the odd silver horizontal striping is but I think it is related to ... (more)

An early spring along the Animas. The calendar says that winter still has a month to go, but already, the snows in the foothills of the San Juan Mountains are beginning to melt away. A bri... (more)

Steamscape - Winter in the San Juans. A fresh dusting of snow covers the San Juan Foothills as a D&RGW mixed train eases through the High Line, some 400 feet above the icy Animas River.

Rio Grande SD40T-2 5383 fronts a Westbound coal empty as it descends Tennessee Pass into the crew change point of Minturn.

The Rio Grande Zephyr nears Interstate 70 on its way to Denver.

The westbound RGZ departs Grand Junction with the usual power of 5771,5762,and 5763 along with 8 cars. A great looking train!

D&RGW 3087 leads the daily Westbound Denver to Roper, Utah manifest with 4 other GP40/40-2's on the approach to Tunnel #1 West of Denver.

The Denver Ski Train is heading Westbound with a destination of Winter Park as it clears Tunnel #2 and is about to duck into Tunnel #3 on the Moffat Tunnel Line.

Two D&RGW SD40T-2's have nearly finished helping a southbound loaded coal train to the top of the Palmer Divide. They will stop up at the signal in the distance, cut off the caboose and then run a... (more)

After running around the caboose, Rio Grande "Tunnel Motor" #5390 shoves it back to the rear of the southbound loaded coal train that it had just assisted to the summit of the Palmer Divide.

Two days ago I posted a picture taken on Cumbres in September 1964, and here is one taken almost exactly 47 years later. The "485" switches at Cumbres on a Lerro charter. This is actually the C&... (more)

This train seems a fitting tribute to the 'Changing of the Guard' on the Moffat Road. It is amazing how fast things change, it is definitely the only constant....

A westbound freight zig-zags along the shelf above the Colorado River a couple miles west of HSS.

400 feet above the Rio de las Animas Perdidas, a Denver & Rio Grande Western mixed train crawls along the man-made cliff that has become known simply as: "The High Line." Led by one of th... (more)