With Blanca Peak in the background, three ex Rio Grande boxcars sit left in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains'. This was all once heavy Rio Grande territory before the UP took over. As DRGW histo... (more)

The CXRG Walsenburg Turn with the 2nd crew onboard is back in the San Luis Valley after completing their trip back through the pass and is back up to 25MPH as they head westbound back to East Yard... (more)

SLRG GP40PH-2 #4138 and 4136, ex NJ Transit, are returning to Alamosa, CO with a passenger run from La Veta Pass at Blanca, CO 9/26/18. The 4138 is wrapped for Adams State University located in A... (more)

Surviving in 2020. Home Built D-500 and Plymouth ML-8 rest in the high dry sun of the San Luis Valley. D-500 a Frankenstein chain driven locomotive built of various railroad, truck and tractor p... (more)

A westbound train runs west at 10mph into the setting sun on a stormy evening in the high flat San Luis Valley. The Valley is full of odd happenings and lore. It is the nations cattle mutilation c... (more)

SSLV, a short line off DRGW's Alamosa line had a scratch built diesel locomotive built on a steam tender frame with a I-H prime mover. The railroad is long abandoned.

What do you do when both of your steam locomotives are on their last legs and you don't have enough dollars in the bank to purchase even a cheap diesel? You build your own, of course. This beaut... (more)

Former D&RGW standard gauge C-28 2-8-0 #688 rests in the tiny yard of the SSLV in Blanca, CO. As SSLV #105, she survived at Blanca after sister #106, ex-D&RGW 583, was moved to the Colorado Railr... (more)

Here Comes the Sun...with apologies to George Harrison

Roaring across the San Luis Valley, the (San Luis &) Rio Grande #18 heads Eastward, as the Massive (and It's HUGE at 14,000 Feet above Sea Level) Mt Blanca towers above the landscape

Eastbound thru the San Luis Valley of Colorado, former SP 2-6-0, now San Luis & Rio Grande, #1744 is on the way to to La Veta.