Here's an old pan I took back before I was even born, featuring DRG&W #485, scrapped in 1955. This photo is not possible to take today (but it was last week after #489 dressed as #485 for a day, ... (more)

DRG&W #487 with it's freight sits in the siding giving priority to DRG&W #485 with a passenger train bound for Chama. Just another day on the DRG&W, as it has been for over a 100 years.

DRG&W #487 arrives at the Cresco water tank deep in the woods looking to top off before terminating the run in Chama.

1951 or 2011?

While in Cumbres one September I made sure to document this scene. DRG&W #485 has long been scrapped after falling into a turntable pit and only the entrance of the full snow shed (as seen) now s... (more)

D&SNG engine # 482 waits on the south leg of the wye at Silverton while the 2nd passenger train of the day with engine # 480 backs into the north leg of the wye to turn their train.

In the snowshed at Cumbres Pass. Denver & Rio Grande Western #485 sits with her freight on a snowshed-covered leg of the Cumbres Pass Wye waiting for traffic to pass. For pretty obvious r... (more)

Steamscape - Tanglefoot Curve. Denver & Rio Grande Western #485 works upgrade westbound on Tanglefoot Curve with an afternoon freight bound for Cumbres Pass and Chama. For the first day o... (more)

Vista at Tanglefoot. In an effort to maintain a practical grade though the steep grades of both CO and NM, the Rio Grande engineered several horseshoe grades in it's lines easing the climb. In t... (more)

Steep grades are the norm on the Denver, Rio Grande and Western narrow gauge line seen here attacking the grade at Tanglefoot Curve. DRG&W #485 has the honors today thanks to a Lerro Productions ... (more)

DRG&W #487 winds it's way down the grade bound for the station in Chama, NM.

Rio Grande #487 and consist travel West through the Los Pinos valley en route towards Chama. A Lerro Productions charter.

Well I'll be dog gone, if it ain't DRG&W #485 returned from the scrap yard! Flagman and best friend sit and admire DRG&W #489 posed as #485, last seen in 1955 when scrapped after falling into a t... (more)

DRGW #487 arrives at the water tank for a drink. Water flows from the tender as the crew wets the dusty coal. A light from a speeder shines behind as it will along the entire trek to Cumbres an... (more)

DRGW #487 pulls up to the ash pit early one morning ready to dump her ash - a scene that has been repeated for nearly 100 years. Afterward, the crew will bring the engine past the coal tipple and... (more)