A view of the wooden trestle across the Los Pinos river during the first day of the Toltec Rattler Redux event. While the weather is slowly improving, clouds from the storm which brought the first... (more)

The snow is falling fast as BNSF 9709 (SD70MAC) gets ready to lead the Beer Train from the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado to Denver.

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 approaches Decker’s Bay with a freight, lost in the wintery wonderland of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains on February 6, 2007. The chartered photo freight is operating on ... (more)

After a long chilling wait standing in the frozen snow Amtrak's Empire Builder emerges from the trees onto the iconic Sunset Falls Bridge crossing over the mighty Skykomish River. Amtrak P42DC #20... (more)

Steam wraps around Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) as it gets ready to pull passenger cars around the grounds of the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Rio Grande Southern locomotive #20 (4-6-0) takes a spin on the turntable at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Bridgton & Saco River #7 whistles for the grade crossing on a frigid winter day. What could easily be a historic photograph is actually from the Grand Reunion of Steam hosted by the Wiscasset, Wat... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) lets off steam as it heats up for the evening's run of the Polar Express.

Colorado & Southern Rotary Plow #99201 sits on a track at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

That 70's Show: Redux

Meanwhile, we've trucked on down the other side of 'The Great Divide' while still remaining in the time-warp to 1972, we find the newly created 'Cumbres a... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) gets ready to leave the roundhouse at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

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.

An Executive Grinstein SD70MAC crosses a road in Golden, Colorado as it leads the Beer Train from the Coors Brewery to Denver in a snowstorm.

It wasn't unusual for 'rails' to chalk their inside jokes on each other's locomotives. In this case, 'swine' is a play on SD9 and the hoghead's nickname. What is unusual in this photo however is ... (more)

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