(Note: click on the thumbnails to see the full-sized images!) For a while during the spring of 2001, Union Pacific was using several Rio Grande
Category: Railfanning

1994
Some years are just special. Opportunities present themselves in abundance. Unexpected challenges emerge. Enormous amounts of film are exposed (refer back to the statement about

Trip: Pilgrimage to Helper, 2001
A Look Back on an Iconic Railfan Excursion For a period just before and after the turn of the millennium, the small railroad town of

Solo Trip: The Borderlands
For the photos that accompany this trip, click here (opens in new window). The routes of the former D&RGW pass through a number of remote, all-but-inaccessible,

From My Little World…
Although still green as grass in this area, I’ve stumbled around enough to have a couple of observations and even a suggestion or two.

Ski Train Hunting
For about sixty years, the Rio Grande railroad and its corporate successors (i.e. Ansco) operated a ski train between Denver and the Winter Park resort