A northbound (timetable westbound) Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad passenger train has just crossed the Animas River while departing Durango, Colorado, on the morning of August 30, 2021.... (more)

The carmen at Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s car shop in Durango, Colorado, perform some truck work on open-air gondola No. 405 on August 30, 2021. The end of the car has been jacke... (more)

As the last days of autumn wind down, 473 leads a doubleheader to Silverton along the banks of the Animas River.

The final Silverton train of the season squeezes through the cuts at Rockwood on its return to Durango.

Looking down on SP 18 from the old Animas Toll Road that connected Durango and Silverton in the days before the D&RGW's arrival.

SP 18 rounds the curve at Goblin Fire as low clouds swallow the towering peaks of the San Juans behind it.

The autumn leaves were in their glory as SP 18 led a fall photographer's special on the Durango & Silverton.

Three railroads for the price of one: Durango & Silverton 493 puts on a show as it steams past SP 18 and Goose #5 on the Elk Park wye.

A dusting of snow still coats the mountainsides and riverbanks leading into Silverton from a late autumn storm as 480 leads one of the final trains of the season into Silverton.

Pops of color light up the Animas River Canyon as 473 crosses the high bridge back to Durango.

The last Silverton train of the year rolls northward through the Animas Valley on its way out of Durango.

The last leaves of autumn still cling to the trees in the Animas River Valley long after the aspen are bare up at the higher elevations around Silverton.

An early autumn snow coats the ground as one of the Durango & Silverton's last trains of the season hugs the banks of the Animas River on its final approach to Silverton.

D&SNG No. 480 crosses the Animas River on a 242-foot timber trestle dating from 1910-1920. In 2021-2022 this bridge, which has given over 100 years of service, will be replaced with a new one at ... (more)

My favorite K-36 on the D&SNG, No. 481, is upgrade at Hermosa with a nine-car train headed to Silverton. This locomotive has been operating on the D&SNG since 1981 and was the first K-36 reach Si... (more)