Denver & Rio Grande Western K-37 #493, hauling the regular Silverton train south to Durango, passes the K-28 special mixed train on October 16, 2023 at Elk Park outside of Silverton, Colorado. Bri... (more)

East Broad Top 16 works its passenger train up the grade at Enyeart Road on a cloudy October afternoon.

D&RGW #473 and #476 hustle by the powerplant at Tacoma on the Silverton Branch on October 16, 2023. Here the train will pause briefly once into the passing siding to clear the main for the daily S... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #476 marches along the High Line at Granite Point on October 16, 2023 as she works hard to help a mixed train north to Silverton, Colorado. With new valve rings an... (more)

Dave Domitrovich, the Master Mechanic on the East Broad Top, shovels coal into 16's firebox prior to its departure from Rockhill.

D&RGW #473 thunders north within the Animas River Canyon with her mixed train and sister K-28 #476 on the late afternoon of October 16, 2023. Behind her, the Colorado Rockies provide a majestic ba... (more)

"Thunder at Goblin Fire": D&RGW #473 and #476 work hard heading north to Silverton, CO pulling their mixed train on October 16, 2023. Amongst bright Aspen trees the sound here was specta... (more)

SOO 1003 leads the 2023 Santa Train in Hartford.

East Broad Top 16 leads its passenger train up the grade at Douglas Summit to pick up passengers at Colgate Grove.

The morning Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge tourist train pulls into its terminus in Silverton after a long trip from Durango.

Curving along the Animas River the D&RGW's High Line is certainly not for the faint hearted. Here at a location called The Needles, D&RGW K-28 Mikados #473 and #476 continue north to Silverton, Co... (more)

A Northbound West Point Route freight heads past the depot in downtown Auburn, Alabama lead by A&WP 425 in July of 1952. Photo by J. Parker Lamb.

D&RGW #473 and #476 bark along Cement Wall deep within the Animas River Canyon outside of Durango, Colorado on October 16, 2023. #473 and #476 saw extensive use on freight train service from Salid... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western #473 and #476 thunder ahead at Goblin's Fire on the Silverton Branch on October 16, 2023. Built in 1923 by the American Locomotive Company, the K-28 locomotives, also k... (more)

D&RGW #473 and #476 work hard near Elk Park, deep within the Animas River Canyon, bringing their mixed train into the siding on October 16, 2023. Here the D&S sponsored photo special will await th... (more)