Narrow Gauge in the High Country Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 20 and 2-8-2 455 are heading out of Ridgway with a train for Durango just after the end of WWII. This Kodachrome is in pristine c... (more)

Switching in the Storm Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 20 is switching out its train at Antonito after a day out on the line with a TRAINS Magazine photo charter.

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Heading for Dallas Divide Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 20 and 2-8-2 455 recreate an RGS train of the early 1940s during TRAINS Magazine's "Sunset on the Rio Grande Southern" photo ch... (more)

Steaming out of the Past Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 20 recreates a classic scene photographed by the late William Moedinger during TRAINS Magazine's "Sunset on the Rio Grande Southern&q... (more)

RGS Steam Lives Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 20 and 2-8-2 455 (D&RG 463) provided some unforgettable sights during TRAINS Magazine's "Sunset on the Rio Grande Southern" photography e... (more)

Rio Grande Southern Doubleheader RGS 4-6-0 20 and 2-8-2 455 (D&RGW 463) work a 14-car freight train up Gravity Hill on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad during TRAINS Magazine's "Sunset ... (more)

Rio Grande Southern Motor #6. One of the lesser-known members of the Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose family is this little critter, which currently resides at the Colorado Railroad Muse... (more)

Out for a late-summer stroll. In the pretty light of a late August afternoon, RGS Motor #5 glides down the 4% grade just below Cumbres Pass, approaching the Highway 17 crossing at Coxo, Col... (more)

On the pass at Lizard Head. Although I attend numerous historic re-creation events every year, the vast majority of the photos we take still have pretty obvious clues in them that they were... (more)

We don't need water today. Rio Grande Southern Motor #5 (aka "Galloping Goose") rumbles past the water column adjacent to the section house on the 10,015 ft. high Cumbres Pass (MP 330.7) du... (more)

"Came a mighty strange contraption known to trainmen as a motor". The lyrics of Colorado story-teller Bill Fries' (aka C.W. McCall) 1970s song "Gallopin' Goose" come to ... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) gets a spin on the turn table in preparation for a day of running passengers around the grounds of the Colorado Railroad Museum.

The Colorado Railroad Museum’s Rio Grande Southern #20 gets a spin on the turn table under light snow. The engine was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works was built in 1899 for the Florenc... (more)

To Ridgway.....the hard way. A Rio Grande Southern freight, with RGS 10-Wheeler #20 on point, makes the long, 162 mile trek from Durango to Ridgway, Colorado, via Mancos, Dolores, Rico and ... (more)