High Lonesome Mixed

The brisk fall morning breaks over Colorado's San Luis Valley near 1920 as a mixed train on the Denver and Rio Grande makes its way out of Antonito, Colorad... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande T-12 No. 168 and C-18 No. 425 lead a vintage passenger train into Osier, Colorado, on August 27, 2021. This extra train, as well as another double-header led by Eureka & Palisa... (more)

Southern Pacific 18 crosses the Animas River at Timber Bridge

Florence & Cripple Creek took delivery of the "Elkton" in 1895. After the tracks washed out, the Consolidation was purchased by the Denver & Rio Grande and number 425. In 1924 it became... (more)

C&TS K-36 #484 eases down the mountain with a freight train in tow amongst some brilliant autumn colors.

At Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, on the final day of the "Victorian Iron Horse Round-up," D. & R.G. 168 arrived pre-dawn on the east end of the railway, having traveled overnight fro... (more)

K36 487 puts on a beautiful show, with a photo freight during the fall season of the 1989. I don't thing the colors can get much better. (Tom Ellis photo)

Tank Creek is running strong with spring melt as #473 hauls the Cascade Canyon Express back to Durango.

TV is on the Fritz

Snow falls as the Cascade Canyon train leaves Durango for its namesake

Steam powered rotary snowplow OY is pushing through some of the larger drifts on it's way to the Colorado/New Mexico border, where the days work will end. Hardly a soul around to see this extrav... (more)

After departing Chama, New Mexico, on the morning of February 29, 2020, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s Rotary OY begins to throw some snow passing milepost 329 approaching “the narrows.”... (more)

The second locomotive in the consist, CTS 484, and the remainder of the train have to wait for the first locomotive and Rotary OY to cross Lobato Trestle due to a weight restriction on the bridge.

The train has been reassembled after crossing Lobato Trestle and continues its ascent up the 4% grade clearing the track from Chama, NM to Cumbres Pass in Colorado.

On the afternoon of February 29, 2020, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam-powered Rotary OY, pushed by 2-8-2 Mikados Nos. 487 and 484, plows its way east on the three-foot gauge railroad, up t... (more)