Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad extra 473 heads toward Rockwood, Colorado, on the famous High Line, 400 feet above the Animas River on August 14, 2015. This train was operated from Dur... (more)

Eureka and Palisades No. 4 passes the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s “Presidential Special” powered by K-28 No. 473 at Tacoma, Colorado, on August 23, 2003. Built by Alco in 1... (more)

Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad extra 473 works upgrade along the High Line, 400 feet above the Animas River just north (west in timetable) of Rockwood, Colorado, on the afternoon of A... (more)

A view inside the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s Durango roundhouse on October 15, 2014, sees several locomotives in different states of repair. On the right is 2-8-2 Mikado K-28 No... (more)

A southbound (eastbound) Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train crawls along the cliffs above the Animas River on the High Line near Rockwood, Colorado, on August 22, 2003.

The first train of the day to Silverton on August 24, 2003, over the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad snakes along the cliff above Elbert Creek south (east) of Rockwood, Colorado. Mikado ... (more)

A Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train crosses the Animas River just south (east) of Silverton, Colorado, on August 24, 2003. Mikado No. 473 is repainted “Grande Gold” in historic and colo... (more)

Durango and Silverton Mikado No. 473, dressed in colorful 1950s movie paint, takes on water at Tank Creek, Colorado, on the Silverton Branch, on August 23, 2003. The fireman fills the tender tank ... (more)

A Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train heads north through Trimble south of Hermosa, Colorado, on the morning of August 22, 2003. Mikado K-28 No. 473 is decked out in colorful 1950s “Bumbleb... (more)

Durango and Silverton 2-8-2 No. 473 pulls a mixed train between Pinkerton and Rockwood, Colorado, on August 24, 2006. The K-28 Mikado is dressed in “Bumblebee” colors applied to the locomotive... (more)

Work preparing the former Rio Grande Mikados for another busy season has already begun at the Durango and Silverton’s roundhouse at Durango, Colorado, on October 15, 2014. On the right is “Spo... (more)

Here comes the Silverton up from the canyon. A Durango & Silverton special passenger extra emerges from the Animas Canyon at the Timber Bridge just outside Silverton, Colorado, during Railf... (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)

The southbound winter train is just minutes away from the Durango Depot as it crosses the Animas River for the last time.

The southbound winter train nears Home Ranch as it heads south for Durango.