A Durango & Silverton train with a K-36 pulling, rounds the curves along the cliffs edge, and above the Animas River near Rockwood, Colorado. Unfortunately, the Animas has an unsavory orange hue t... (more)

Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train No. 462 crawls along the High Line approaching Rockwood, Colorado, on August 14, 2015.

Hugging the rocky cliffs, Train 462 snakes its way around Rockwood, Colorado's famous High Line Horseshoe Curve, on its way north to Silverton. Locomotive 480, a Baldwin K-36 Mikado, is j... (more)

Leaving the canyon. Observing the permanent slow order associated with the High Line, DSNG Locomotive 486 brings Train 464 out of the Animas Canyon and the San Juan National Forest, on the ... (more)

A southbound (eastbound) Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train crawls along the cliffs above the Animas River on the High Line near Rockwood, Colorado, on August 22, 2003.

The first train of the day to Silverton on August 24, 2003, over the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad snakes along the cliff above Elbert Creek south (east) of Rockwood, Colorado. Mikado ... (more)

A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad track inspector doffs his hard hat as he cruises by mile 468.5 on the way to Rockwood, Colorado, inspecting the track ahead of the first train of the da... (more)

There's a reason for all of those signs..... Durango & Silverton K-36 Locomotive #486 emerges from the south entrance of the Rockwood Cut with Train 464 from Silverton, and slows for a stat... (more)

Eureka and Palisade 4-4-0 No. 4 crawls along the High Line as it leaves Animas River Canyon into Rockwood, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 22, 2003.

Clinging to the cliff high above the Animas River, A Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train creeps westbound (northbound) on the High Line outside Rockwood, Colorado, on August 24, 2006.

A mighty tight fit. Durango & Silverton's K-36 #482 looks as if she's passing a wall of ancient stone carvings, as she tip-toes along the High Line with Train 261, the daily Cascade Canyon ... (more)

Through the Rockies, not around them. So proclaimed the motto of the Denver & Rio Grande, later known as the Denver & Rio Grande Western. In order to accomplish that goal, the D&RGW laid ... (more)

Taking it slow.... D&RGW Locomotive #478 slowly eases a late afternoon Silverton Mixed around the horseshoe curve, on the High Line in Rockwood, CO. Her engineer has her doing about 5 mph... (more)

Fall, 1949, finds an Eastbound Denver and Rio Grande Western mixed train crossing the "high bridge" between Tacoma and Rockwood.

In pouring rain, D&SNG 481 chugs into the cut leading the train to the High Line above the Animas River Gorge.