Showing signs of her true identity, "Rio Grande Southern No.455" takes water from the Rico, er, Chama Water Tank on a crisp September Morning.

RGS 455....with a little help. DRGW C-18 Consolidation Locomotive #315 lends a helping hand mid-train as RGS K-27 Mikado #455 takes her freight westbound just after sunrise.

For most o... (more)

Rio Grande Southern 455 Running on the C and T scenic railway in New Mexico.

Sunrise on the Rio Grande Southern. The "sunrise" herald of the Rio Grande Southern on Locomotive #455's tender stands out in the early morning light as she crosses a small wooden trestle r... (more)

Galloping Goose 7 at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Galloping Goose 6 and 346 Steam engine at the Colorado Railroad Museum

346 in yard

489 Double Header Steam

When not traveling the rails of the C&TS or D&S, Goose #5 rests at her home on the route of the old RGS by the depot in Dolores, seen here as a typical San Juan afternoon storm rolls in.

Galloping Goose 4 sits tightly enshrined in a small park downtown Telluride for tourists to admire. She was fully restored to operating condition in the early 2000s by the Ridgeway museum and made... (more)

Cookin' rivets. As a crew of riveters works to fasten a new smokebox to a boiler under overhaul, a female colleague is busy heating the rivets and transferring them to the work site. In t... (more)

A very riveting scene.... As one of their colleagues moves to position a cherry-hot rivet in the smokebox of a narrow gauge locomotive, one of our "Rosies" positions herself to bu... (more)

Rio Grande Southern, Galloping Goose No. 5, at Rockwood, on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

Rio Grande Southern 'Galloping Goose' No. 7 passes the Colorado Railroad Museum's functional water tower on its way back to the station.

The Ford and the Pierce-Arrow. Back in the Chama Yard, all of the equipment from the C&TS 2016 Narrow Gauge Rendezvous event is safely off the mountain. A few photographers hang around fo... (more)