Rio Grande 168 and 425 are taking water at Osier before departing for Chama. This was the "Across the Railroad" excursion, part of the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup.

Echoes of an earlier age. Denver & Rio Grande Consolidation #425 hauls an eastbound mixed consist out of the rock cut at MP 317.3, just east of Osier, CO on a pretty fall day in 2021, on a ... (more)

Tip-toeing over Cascade Creek. With the aspens popping all over the hills surrounding the Los Pinos Valley, D&RG Locomotive #425 slowly rumbles across the high bridge over Cascade Creek at ... (more)

Eureka and Glenbrook steam into Osier, Colorado, with the historic consist. The locomotives will be watered and fueled before heading back to Antonito.

Volunteer crews work the "wood line" at Osier, fueling up Glenbrook and Eureka for the trip back to Antonito. Scenes like this played out many times each day during the Victorian Iron H... (more)

Steamscape: The Los Pinos Valley. High above the Los Pinos Creek, just west of Osier, CO, D&RGW Locomotive #425 takes a mixed train east through a deep rock cut at about MP 317.3. This vie... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 168 takes a drink from the water tank at Osier before heading back to Antonito. The Rio Grande T-12 class engines were built as passenger power, and No. 168 has no probl... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 168 steams through the woods at Toltec Creek with a special train bound for Osier. This was one of several excursions operated during the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup.

DRG 425/DRGW 315 crossing Cascade Trestle on it's final run before it's 1472 rebuild

Denver & Rio Grande T-12 No. 168 and C-18 No. 425 lead a vintage passenger train into Osier, Colorado, on August 27, 2021. This extra train, as well as another double-header led by Eureka & Palisa... (more)

Rocks Ahead!

Re-creating an iconic photo that graced the front cover to Trains Magazine in 1942, the newly restored Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 No. 20 poses as a brakeman sits on... (more)

Eureka and Glenbrook pull up past the old Osier depot towards the new eating house.

With D&RGW #484 in the lead, the daily C&TS excursion follows a shelf high above the Rio de los Pinos.

Cascade Chasm

Cumbres and Toltec 487, a Mikado built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western, steams across Cascade Trestle between Osier and Cumbres Colorado.

After a hardy lunch at Osier, our train is returning to Chama, NM behind D&RGW K36 #489. We made two run-bys over Cascade Trestle. This is the second of a two day 2016 Fall Photo Freight organiz... (more)