A Canon City and Royal Gorge passenger train is just west of Canon City, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 2, 2011. CC&RG F7 No. 403 is a former Chicago and North Western locomotive.
Northbound Goose. Rio Grande Southern Motor Number 5, one of the famous Galloping Geese, cruises through the Rockwood Cut on a northbound run toward Cascade Canyon during Railfest 2011. G... (more)
special AAPRCO private passenger car train on San Luis and Rio Grande RR departing Walsenburg, CO
special AAPRCO private passenger car train on San Luis and Rio Grande RR La Veta, CO
Galloping Goose! Having just turned on the wye, the former RGS Motor #5, aka "Galloping Goose #5", backs slowly into the Silverton Depot at the end of a late afternoon excursion on the Dura... (more)
The Afternoon excursion returns back into Canon City with EMD F7 #403 in the lead.
After waiting for a northbound empty coal hopper to pass, the Royal Gorge train makes its way back to Canon City in the always beautiful Colorado landscape.
One of the few spots that I was able to get two of the three operating Geese in the same photos.
The tourist train from La Veta to Alamosa enters the Fir station.
The Goose crossing Hangman's trestle, headed to Antonio.
An ex-LMX GE replaces steam power on this morning's eastbound passenger run over La Veta Pass from Alamosa to La Veta, Colo.
Trackwork is a bit more complicated when the incline requires rack rail to climb and descend Pike's Peak.