Scenic Train Rides of Colorado Photo Gallery by Ed McNair at pbase.com

Scenic Train Rides of Colorado

Selected photos from a tour of Colorado's historic and scenic trains. The tour started and ended in Denver, Colorado and was a circular tour of the state encompassing five scenic railroads. The tour took seven days and covered more than 1,100 miles. Between train rides we were driven by motor coach to our next destination. THANKS to our Tour Director, Kathy Dec; Instructor, Ron Keiser; and Coach Driver, Claude Clark for an outstanding tour.

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Elder Hostel Group	Arrival in Denver	Tourist Elizabeth	Tourist Ed
Room View #1	View in Opposite Direction	Sunset Over the Mountains	The Next Morning
Tour Director Kathy	Downtown Denver in the Mist	Data Plate	Ron Gives a Short Lecture on #683
Train Headed by #683	How to Switch	Elizabeth in the Day Coach	Ed in the Day Coach
Garden Model RR	Another Portion of the Garden RR	Snow Blower	Additional Rolling Stock and Motive Power
HO Model Indoors	Town Hall in the Model	Fire in Downtown	Model of the UP "Big Boy"
Live Steam Models	Our Lunch Stop	Chatting About the Morning Adventure	A Tourist Street in Georgetown
New Use for an Ore Car	Something Not Seen Much Anymore	After Lunch treat	The Old Fire House
Historic Plaque	Our Tour Chariot	Another view of 6th Street	Georgetown Loop Plaque
Train Returning Across High Bridge	Second View	Close Up	Stream and High Bridge
Load of Tourists	Tracks to Georgetown	View of Bridge From Bottom	Crossing the Big Bridge
Road and Loading Station Below	Looking at Georgetown	Looking Toward Silver Plume	Falls on Clear Creek
Rounding the Curve at High Fill	We Arrive	Denver & Rio Grande Caboose	Crew Sleeper
The Engine Shop	The Old Mine	Rail Siding to the Mine	Clear Creek
Castle Rock	Garden of the Gods	Close Up Garden of the Gods	Garden of the Gods
Garden of the Gods	Garden of the Gods Plaque	Garden of the Gods	Garden of the Gods
Ed and Elizabeth in the Garden	Balancing Rock	Garden of the Gods	Steamboat Rock
Narrow Passageway	Out Two Tourists	How Were the Rocks Formed?	Station at Manitou
Old #5	Cab Control	The Top?	The Old Pine
Windy Point	Near the Top	Looking Eastward	Looking Southward
Looking Southeast	Looking Northeast	Hazy View of Colorado Springs	Southeast
America The Beautiful	The Gold Mine	Our Train	Switching Cog Rail
The Train	Looking Northward	End of the Line	Proof
Last Look	Yellow-bellied Marmont	Up Bound Train	Just Waiting
Old Water Tank	Typical Hillside	A Second Passing point	Can You Find a Face?
What is Keeping Them Up There	Lunch on the Veranda	Bit of Weather Arrives	Garden of the Gods
Air Force Academy	Plaza Behind the Administration Building	Some of the Aircraft Statues	Tuskegee Airmen
Air Force Academy Chapel	Interior of Protestant Chapel	The Organ	The Chancel in the Protestant Chapel
Catholic Chapel	Jewish Chapel	Buddhist Chapel	Northeast Main Campus
On the Road Again	Old #8	View Form the Other Side	F7 #402 Waits to Pull Train to Parkedale
One of the Associate Engineers	Our Engineer	Ready to Get Under Way	Tracks Are Clear
View From the Cab	The Arkansas River and Railroad	View of Our Train from the Back	Into the Gorge
In the Gorge	Old Water Pipeline	Royal Gorge Bridge	The Other End of the Gorge
Gorge Opens into a Valley	Meeting the Rock Train	More Hopper Cars	Old DRGW Gondolas
Interior of Dinning Car	The Train Crew Passes Through	Prospectors	On the Way Back
Stop at the Hanging Bridge	Suspended Railroad Bridge	Tourists and the Bridge	Second View
The Cab	Ready for Our Second Ride of the Day	The Depot	Our Train
The Cab	The Good-Bye Wave	On Our Way	View Across the Plain
A Couple of tourists	Seems Like You Can See Forever	Through the Gap	Into the Tunnel
Rock Outcrop	Entering the Horseshoe	We'll Be There in A Minute!	Most of the Horseshoe
Lake With Geese	Open Plain	Sangre de Cristo Mountains and Dunes	Engine Number 484
The Cab	Old Narrow Gage Rolling Stock	Water Tank	Check the Ties
The Depot at Antonito	Coach Full of Tourists	One of the Whacky Tourists	View of Our Train
Mt. San Antonio	Through the Whiplash	Looking North	The Rio Los Pinos
Railroad Work Crew	Worker's Station	View of the Rio de Los Pinos Valley	Rio de Los Pinos Valley
Old Volcanic Dome	Entering Mud Cave	Phantom Curve	Additional Strange Rock Formations
Red and Yellow Rock	Expanded View	Valley of Rio de Los Pinos	Across the Toltec Gorge
Toltec Gorge	Toltec Goerge	Scene from the Old West	Last View
Osier Terminal	Rio de Los Pinos	Crossing Cascade Creek	The Train Crossing Cascade Creek
We''re Still Climbing	Thin Air Here	The Durango Depot and Museum	The Machine Shop
Interior of Museum	Display Locomotive	Diagram of a Locomotive	Off the Turntable
Steam is Up	The Bell	Model Railroad	Narrow Gage Caboose
Wash Basin - Caboose Interior	The Stove	The Cupola	Interior
Conductor's Desk	The Early Train	Early Train Departing	Who's That Whacky Tourist?
We're Underway	Our Departure Station Sign	Station Master Sees Us Off	Countryside
The FBO	Prairie Dog Farm	Snow Capped Peak	Our Train Climbs Toward Silverton
Animas River Gorge	Looking Across the Animas River Gorge	Animas River Below	Animas River & Gorge
Gorge Becomes Deeper	Rounding the Most Photographed Section	Tracks, Gorge, & River	Heading Into the Curve
Last Look Before Engine Disappears	Looking Back	The Rest of the Train	Just Too Spectacular
A Long Way Down	Animas River Has Cut a Pathway	Looking Backward	The Animas River Below
Gorge	Animas River	How Does It Survive	Looking Down into the River
Critter on a Rock	Blowing Steam on High Bridge	Animas River Runs Slower	At the River's Edge
Wider Section of the River	Animas River and Mt. Garfield	Electric Peak	Animas River and Silverton
Kendall Mountain	Looking Back at Mt. Garfield	Sultan Mountain	Arriving at Silverton
The Train Stops Here!	Data Plate From Our Engine	The View Up Greene Street	One of Many
Very Old Piano in the Grand Imperial Hotel	Check-In Desk	Eye-Catching Shops Across the street	northern End of Greene Street
Rosewood Bar	On the Million Dollar Highway	View of the Browns Gulch	Red Mountain #1 and Red Mountain #2
Red Mountain and Idarado Mine	Clean-Up Site	Red Mountain, the Mine, and Tailings	Ralston Creek Falls
Bear Creek Falls	Bear Creek Above the Falls	Another View Ralston Creek Falls	Abrams mountain
Ouray, Colorado	Rock Climbers Practicing	The Beaumont Hotel	The Reason There Are No Interior Photos
Ready for Jeeping!	Part of the Box Canyon Falls	Sun Rising Over Ouray	United States Mountain
Canyon Creek	Oak Ridge	Looking Down on Canyon Creek	Sun Rising on the Mountain Top
Camp Bird Mine	Camp Bird Mine Tailings	Sneffels Creek	Mt. Sneffels
Abandoned Mine Entrance	Climbing to Yankee Boy Basin	Looking Back at United States Mountain	Stoney Mountain
Our Climb Continues	Sneffels Mine Tailings	Town of Sneffels Sign	Atlas Mine Mill and Tailings
Atlas Mine Hammers	The Hillside at the Atlas Mine	The Miners Cabin	Mt. Emma?
The Twin Falls	Twin Falls	Unusual Rock Formations	Alpine Vista
Yankee Boy Basin	Looking Toward Mendota Peak	The Way Back	Stoney Mountain
Mt. Sneffels	The Monk	Teakettle Peak	Another Alpine View
Road Ducks Under Granite	The Galloping Goose	Trucks and Bead from #6	The Main Structure
Chain Drive	The Main Body	Operational Goose #1	Cab Interior
Goose #1	The Brakes	Interior of Goose #6	A Couple of Prairie Dogs Watch Us
We Have Bus Troubles	Air Drier Pop Valve Problem	Here's That Wrench You Wanted	Our Next to Last Stop
The Gunnison River Flows 2,000 Feet Below	Oh! Those Whacky Tourists	Quite a Gorge	Pulpit Rock Overlook
Our Friendly Staff	The Gorge and the Painted Wall	Gunnison River Flows 2000 Feet Below	A Side Canyon
Black Mesa in the Distance	Mound on the Plain	Weston Peak	Rest Stop

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