The sun lights West Texas on fire as an eastbound loaded coal train pulls onto single track to continue its journey down the Red River Valley Subdivision.

Overlooking Thistle's altered landscape after being decimated by a landslide which blocked the railroad, river, road, and buried the town in 1983. All realignments (rail, river, road) can be found... (more)

The tall grass sways to the rhythm of the passing train as K-28 476 brings The Silverton home to Durango.

Afternoon light glows across the Animas River Valley as train 464 dashes through the fields en route to Durango.

Fireman Breeden tops off the water in K-37 493 at Tank Creek as we get a clean look down the tracks at the day's 12-car train and a pristine Animas River.

K-37 493 walks across the High Line under the watchful eye of Engineer Breeden as the Animas River sits a couple hundred feet below the train.

Dual DL535s walk their train through the MP 486 slide area that shutdown Silverton service for six days in June, and another day in July after sliding again. The chute is visible behind the locomo... (more)

Train 463 with locomotives 476 and 473 pauses for water at the new Needleton Tank. However, the old wooden tank is still standing and visible midway through the train.

On Memorial Day 2024, Fireman Duncan (left) gets handed off an American flag by Engineer Breeden (right) as their K-28 locomotives pass in Silverton.

Of all the natural beauty found in Colorado, Shalona Lake is not one of those... Natural that is. On their southbound run back to Durango, train 464 swoops above the privately owned and man-made l... (more)

In a boisterous thundering of smoke and power, K-36 480 shows off for the photographers of Dak Dillon's photo train at the famed cement wall just south of Cascade Canyon.

DSNG K-36 480 and K-37 493 peek at their reflections outside the Durango roundhouse as the night ticks away.

The last coal-fired train departed Durango in March and soon after, K-36 class 481 was separated from its tender and placed on display in the DSNG museum pending an oil conversion. What was not fo... (more)

As a result of Amtrak 28s Siemens Charger developing issues in the Columbia River Gorge, BNSF 294 has been dropped off a passing Q train at Spokane and delegated to pull the increasingly late Empi... (more)

Along the banks of Lake Pend Oreille, the DP of an eastbound X-PSAHAS holds the main through Hope while a westbound coal train for Canada holds in the siding.