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)

D&RGW #473 and #476 hustle through Whitehead Gulch on October 16, 2023 pulling the daily Silverton Mixed. Given the unseasonably warm temperatures in Colorado for the Fall season, peak fall foliag... (more)

D&RGW #473 and #476 work hard outside of Rockwood, CO pulling the daily Silverton Mixed on October 16, 2023. This was taken as part of a Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad two day photo s... (more)

Curving up and around the privately owned and man-made Shalona Lake just south of Rockwood is train 463 with K-28 473 and K-37 493 leading the final push up to their station stop.

Doubleheaded train 463 crosses over US 550 and begins its assault on Hermosa Hill, with both firemen getting in position to sand the flues of the locomotives for the first time of the day.

Train 463 to Silverton is 10 miles into their 45-mile journey to Silverton as they pass the decommissioned wooden DRGW water tank at Hermosa. It was general practice to space these tanks every 10 ... (more)

D&RGW 473 storms through Granite Point and towards Rockwood, CO with a long mixed train. Sister K-28 locomotive #476 is working as a mid-train helper to move this large fifteen car train upgrade t... (more)

D&RGW 473 storms through Granite Point with a long mixed train. Sister K-28 locomotive #476 is working as a mid-train helper to move this large fifteen car train upgrade to Silverton. This was a r... (more)

Riding in the cupola of the 0540 caboose as the first mixed train with a mid train helper to traverse the Silverton Branch since 1958 meet the sight of Pigeon and Turret Peaks on their way northbo... (more)

Now it's 400 Feet Straight Down*

Easing around the famed Horseshoe Curve on the Denver and Rio Grande Western's Silverton Branch we catch K37 493 rounding out the bend from Roc... (more)

Peak autumn colors have hit the San Juans as Durango & Silverton #476 steams through Elk Park in Rio Grande lettering for the K-28s' 100th anniversary.

Just a few days after its 100th birthday, Durango & Silverton #473 heads for Silverton along the world famous Highline painted up in its original Rio Grande lettering.

Durango & Silverton #476 traverses the highline in Rio Grande lettering as part of the K-28's 100th anniversary celebration.

The first of four today's four steam trains to Silverton climbs up above Shalona Lake and into Rockwood.

D&SNGRR #480 leads a string of hoppers on a test run to Silverton.