In April 1984, a westbound Rio Grande freight encounters a high country ground blizzard at East Portal, Colorado. High winds, low visibility and drifting snow; just a part of springtime at the Mof... (more)

With the road crew of train #100 offering a roll by in the siding at Crescent, the Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 ascends the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies on its westward journey to Salt Lake ... (more)

Three GP40-2's, 3100, 3120 and 3122, emerge from Byers Canyon at Hot Sulphur Springs on an eastbound piggyback in August 1981. Have always wondered why "Sulphur" is spelt the British way, in this ... (more)

Mid-train helpers on north side of loop. Train is southbound (RR east). Second unit is a B40-8. You can't take this picture today because of no trespassing signs.

This is the SB "Cans." The mid-train helpers are on the northern portion of the Loop and are headed geographically west. The tops of the "cans" in the foreground are on the southern portion and ... (more)

Late afternoon on a cold December day in 1981, finds a dusty 3100, 3079, 3108 and 5320 break out into a lone shaft of sunlight as they haul eastbound #36 slowly through the shadows of Mitchell.

Crossing open country alongside the Colorado River, between Gore and Little Gore Canyons, 3100, 3082, 3093 and 3091 and their westbound freight have just run through Azure siding in June 1981.

DRGW 3100 sits at Minturn in between helper duties to Tennessee Pass in June 1981 - this locomotive still wears this livery today, patched as UP 1350.

Seriously dwarfed by nature, the air reverberates to the drone of four GPs making their slow westbound journey through Gore Canyon, high above the Colorado River, in June 1981.

On April 30, 1989, a group of senior D&RGW officials received a 'Grande' retirement party, stopped briefly at the depot at Helper, Utah. Soon the exclusive 'party on rails' will be on the move, he... (more)

How would you like it if your employer chartered a special passenger train for your retirement party? Senior officials of the D&RGW received a 'Grande" retirement going away party on the observati... (more)

After cutting out the mid-train helpers and reattaching, 3100 3079 3108 5320 await departure from Tennessee Pass with #36 eastbound freight in early December 1981.

DRGW 3100 and caboose spend Christmas Day in Colorado Springs.