Coach SILVER Aspen at Grand junction. This Budd coach was a sixteen sleeper till 1963, rebuilt then to a 48 seat coach. Here the D&RGW Zephyr took a break for the service of the entire train-

All steamed up and nowhere to go ... yet. Former Rio Grande K-37 2-8-2 491 is all steamed up on Friday for a recording session that will occur on Monday. This locomotive was built by Baldw... (more)

Service stop for Baggage/Dorm/Coach 1230 and the other equipment of the D&RGW Zephyr at Grand Junction

Service stop for Diner Car Silver Banquet and the whole D&RGW Zephyr at Grand Junction

D&RGW Zephyr leaving Coal creek Canyon en route to Moffat tunnel. Note the hard working F's (Diesel dust). Shot by train.

side view of the old D&RGW station

Long Gone A Rio Grande EMD SD9 rests at the roads yard in Salt Lake City in the summer of 1980

If It’s Wednesday, It Must Be Wash Day … The Rio Grande Zephyr, one of the few non-Amtrak intercity passenger trains in the United States (at this time), operated six day per... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado ran their DRGW 491 (Baldwin 2-8-2 built in 1902) much to the delight of the weekend crowd.

D&RGW #3077 is eastbound, in your face, at Utah Ry. Junction at the lower end of Price River Canyon. Helper Yard is about 3 miles or so ahead. Those tracks on the left are the yard leads to Utah R... (more)

D&RGW #5371 has picked up it’s loads of contaminated waste at the set-out track at Wellington, Utah and is now running east on the ex. Rio Grande main across the shale flats towards the junction... (more)

The Roads No Longer Taken

Four years after a landslide at Thistle, Utah blocked the Spanish Fork River with thousands of tons of earth, wiping out the town, a westbound Rio Grande ... (more)

Moving through the area known as Detour in the Rio Grande timetable, a westbound D&RGW manifest works its way down the Soldier Summit grade.

Time was fast running out for #5371. It was the very last un-renumbered, unpatched Rio Grande unit left on the Union Pacific RR. Fittingly it ran it’s last miles out of Helper, Utah on the “Di... (more)

The grade involved in descending the Gilluly Loops is evident in this view of a westbound Rio Grande freight approaching the Route 6 overpass.