Rio Grande Southern #20 is on stage at the Colorado Railroad Museum for its comeback from a lengthy thorough restoration.

Rio Grande Southern #20 is on stage at the Colorado Railroad Museum for its comeback from a lengthy thorough restoration.

Breakdown

Rio Grande Southern Twenty somewhere on the RGS is having a problem with a car; crews scramble to solve the issue without success at this moment. A busy motorist wit... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 is on stage at the Colorado Railroad Museum for its comeback from a lengthy thorough restoration.

The Great Pink Panther

Union Pacific #8418 is at track speed through the super elevated S turn around the great Pink Panther at Dale Junction straight into the early morning ... (more)

the Granite of the Overland Route

Westbound out of the Hermosa Tunnels into Tie Siding on an early June evening UP #5263 leads a diverse manifest. The Sherman Granite is rich... (more)

In the Cut at Hermosa west portal

Eastbound lead by UP #7462 and patched ex-Espee #6365 hustles a salad shooter into the super elevation and the cut before the Hermosa Tunnel... (more)

Dale Creek Junction

Marching eastbound autos at Dale Junction on a July morning near the Sherman Granite.

Crescent to Tunnel 19

Westbound past Crescent nearing tunnel 19 a coal bucket with some foreign power from Canadian National is in the mix and echos in the valley south of Gro... (more)

Fall in the Valley

Amtrak 5 skims the Tolland valley past Karel Park Lake below the Giants Ladder of the old Rollins Pass line among peak Fall color. About to cross East Po... (more)

Heavy fog from evaporating deep snow slows traffic up and down the Moffat Sub. Fog coupled with several feet of new wet Spring snow causing power outages and further delays trains were jammed for ... (more)

The Storms of the High Plains

Isolated thunderstorms were marching easterly across the High Plains of eastern Colorado on July 29, 2020. The usual parade of westbound coal bu... (more)

At the foot of Eldorado Mountain

WKRDVG-29 Work train-Kremmling-Denver-Gang train works eastbound out of tunnel 10 through daylighted tunnel 9 on a vibrant summer morning d... (more)

Union Pacific hustles PCBDV 27 with number 4222 on the point at Fort Luptin, CO on July 27th 2020. 92 degrees and dry fields and sunflowers are a stark contrast from the Colorado high country this... (more)

Congratulations to the Crews that restored RGS #20

The guys and their lady! Rio Grande Southern Number 20 stands proud with the crews and artisans that lovingly restored her.... (more)