Close call at Toltec Siding. RP viewers who have met me know how much I dislike derailment photos. While I actually have a few of them, I typically don't post them, because they show the u... (more)

An open firebox door illuminates the fireman as the DRGW 488 heads west from Antonito shortly before sunrise. A Farrails/Pete Lerro charter.

DSNG 486 arriving in Durango after a New Years Eve trip to Cascade Canyon

Pushin' Hard! Just a half a mile or so from the beginning of the daunting 4% grade, we find K-36 #488 pushing hard on the tail end of a Rio Grande Freight headed for the 10,000 ft. high Cum... (more)

Crossing the Animas. Although the morning sunlight is already bathing the western walls of the Animas Canyon, the bottom of the gorge is still in shadow as the first of the Silverton Trains... (more)

There's a reason the DRGW prided themselves on their many scenic rail lines, going so far as to use the slogan "Scenic Line of the World" in their company logo for many years. Here, C-18 class loc... (more)

The first southbound of the day nears Durango as it passes through the countryside south of Hermosa.

Durango & Silverton’s Presidential special is operated during the late summer Railfest activities. For the 2005 version, the railroad renumbered Mikado 478 to a long-scrapped sister engine, No. ... (more)

481 boards passengers at the depot while two more locomotives gets ready for a run later in the morning.

The southbound winter train is just minutes away from the Durango Depot as it crosses the Animas River for the last time.

The southbound winter train nears Home Ranch as it heads south for Durango.

Something the Cumbres & Toltec is trying this year is a weekly train run on Sundays, called the Sunday Express. It starts at Chama, runs up the 4% to Cumbres, where the passengers get a picnic lun... (more)

Once C&TS train 215 arrived in town, a moonlight special departed Chama en route to Osier, where the riders would enjoy a steak dinner and wine tasting before returning to Chama, which would not h... (more)

C&TS 488 leads a Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec special train that ran from Chama to Cumbres for a meeting of the Friends. One of the members of the Friends passed away in February, so shortly af... (more)

K-36 489 and 488 as mid train helper are hauling a heavy freight special up to the cumbres pass.