Fall stock rush in full swing. The crew of DRGW 315 pulls her stock train up to the Chama Stock Pens to load cattle for an eastbound run to Alamosa.

Almost home.... With their coal bunker all but empty, and the heavy lifting pretty much done, Firemen Olaf and Dave can pretty much relax for the last three miles and change as DRGW 315 and... (more)

In the 1940's, Rio Grande Southern often leased some of the D&RGW's older locomotives including C-18 #315. On one of those leases, #315 works as a midtrain helper pushing hard against a heavy frei... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #455 storms uphill on it's way to Lizard Head Pass with another heavy freight train. Six cars back, leased D&RGW #315 shoves on the train as it climbs the steep grade. It r... (more)

Gloomy sky, gloomy future. The gloomy morning sky over the Chama Yard pretty well reflects the prospects for the old soldier seen here. The former D&RGW #483, a Baldwin K-36 Locomotive, w... (more)

On the pass at Lizard Head.... The long-extinct Rio Grande Southern railroad ran from Durango to Ridgway, Colorado, a distance of about 162 rail miles. Like the D&RGW Line between Chama a... (more)

A helping hand. The smoke from the K-27 road engine up ahead is still fresh in the air as C-18 class Consolidation #315 charges past, providing mid-train power to help lift the heavy Rio Gr... (more)

A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad train pauses briefly next to the siding at Big Horn, New Mexico, in August 1979. Bringing up the rear of the train is caboose No. 05635. This car was a former Ri... (more)

D&RGW K-37 491 takes a spin on the Colorado Railroad Museum's Armstrong turntable prior to a day of excursions for the Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Historical Society. In the background are the two old... (more)

White passengers enjoy lunch, 463 cools her heels on her eastbound trip to Antonito from Chama.

Chama is a time capsule - particularly in the morning when the smell of hot cylinder oil and coal smoke is in the air and the engines are being prepared for another day of work. It's a credit to t... (more)

An interesting collection sits around the Durango turntable including this long out of service K-37 #493 which was retired by the Rio Grande in 1970. It is one of several out of service K-37s thro... (more)

After being out of service since the 1990s, K-27 #476 is undergoing a full restoration in the Durango roundhouse.

Making its third of four crossings of Clear Creek between Devil's Gate and Silver Plume, former International Railways of Central America #111 barks up the grade on approach to the Lebanon Mine pl... (more)

Thundering through the cut above the Everett Mine, former IRCA #111 digs her feet into the steep grades and sharp curves of the former Colorado & Southern. An incredible feat of civil engineering... (more)