A Wrinkle In Time. Built in 1875, The "Eureka" a wood burning 4-4-0 from Nevada's long gone Eureka and Palisade Railroad meets her 50 year younger, but larger coal burning sister, a D... (more)

Service Stop. On a cool, crisp August afternoon, Eureka and Palisade #4, the "Eureka" has pulled to the Needleton Tank on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Volunteer A... (more)

In The Hall Of The Mountain Kings. Eureka and Palisade #4, "The Eureka" glides northward over the Animas River though Elk Park. Usually, this valley is dominated by the Eureka's younge... (more)

The Sanctum of the Leviathans

Railfan and Railroad's 2021 Center Spread 3rd Place Winner

Job Briefing: 1949

Night has enveloped the Durango Depot in the late 1940's as a late arriving 'San Juan Express' arrives from Alamosa and points east. Actually, this is a staged photo shoot put on by the Duran... (more)

The Little Train to Oblivion. Denver and Rio Grande Western #463 leads a circa 1939 train out of Antonito westward.

Sunset falls on Grand Canyon Railway #29 after her first run to the Grand Canyon in eight years.

After making her first run to the Grand Canyon in eight years, GCRy 29 has its feedwater pump checked out by Grand Canyon Railway's Chief Mechanical Officer, Eric Hadder. Nearly twenty years into ... (more)

Sunset falls on Grand Canyon Railway #29 after her first run to the Grand Canyon in eight years. (On railroad property with permission)

Monsoon Thunderstorms mix with the other thunder in the Arizona Northland, Grand Canyon Railway 4960.

After a flat-out high speed burn from Flagstaff (Located at the base of Mt. Elden, the rounded lava dome on the left) of speeds at 90 MPH. Here we see Amtrak's Train #4, the Southwest Chief drops... (more)

Union Pacific 844 crosses the Pecos River in 2011 for the Arizona Centennial Train (though the actual anniversary was not to occur until 2012). For the diesel fans, note the UP 1996, the South... (more)

Silhouetted against the Sangre de Christo Mountain range of Southern Colorado, the daily eastbound train of the Cumbres and Toltec trundles across the southwester edge of the San Luis Valley on it... (more)

"If it fits, It Ships!" A shortened train on the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad fits entirely on the Cascade Creek Trestle on a breezy spring afternoon in this "unorthodox"... (more)