Smoke and steam are things that typically add a lot of drama to steam engine photography. But it is a two edged sword. In this view I got a bit more smoke than I had bargained for. C'est la vie... (more)
Pushin' Hard! Just a half a mile or so from the beginning of the daunting 4% grade, we find K-36 #488 pushing hard on the tail end of a Rio Grande Freight headed for the 10,000 ft. high Cum... (more)
Crossing the Animas. Although the morning sunlight is already bathing the western walls of the Animas Canyon, the bottom of the gorge is still in shadow as the first of the Silverton Trains... (more)
Durango & Silverton’s Presidential special is operated during the late summer Railfest activities. For the 2005 version, the railroad renumbered Mikado 478 to a long-scrapped sister engine, No. ... (more)