5/13/18

My image today goes back to Silverton Colorado and my trip on the Durango & Silverton Railway.  I took this from the train I was riding on just before we pulled out to head back to Durango.  The locomotive is from the last train of the day and one of it's crew was posing for someone with a huge smile on his face.  Great people running the railroad and beautiful scenery so a great ride to take if you ever get the chance.

5/6/18

My image today goes back to last summer and my trip to Colorado and the Durango & Silverton Railway.  The train was at Silverton waiting for passengers to re-board.  You can get off and visit the town but I chose to watch and photograph the trains coming and going.

11/27/17

Today's image is really about the scenery but it does have the added bonus of a steam train in it as well.  I was capturing the scenery in Silverton, Colorado while shooting the trains coming into town.  The locomotive of this train was clearing out it's cylinder as I took this image of one of the mountains in the area that still had some snow on it in July.  Silverton is a beautiful area but I think it really only exists these days due to the tourist train.  

10/29/17

This is an image from a much warmer day back in July taken during my trip to the Durango & Silverton Railway.  This is our locomotive and train sitting in Silverton waiting for passengers to re-board for the trip back to Durango.  Silverton is a quaint little town that basically only still exists due to the railroad and tourists.  It was once a mining town.

8/27/17

In a couple of previous posts I have been mentioning about how I was capturing the trains as they were moving around to turn on the Wye.  I found this shot that shows just what that is.  I took this while we were moving in to town on the main track that crosses the top of the Wye.  Looking towards the first train to arrive at Silverton you can clearly see the Y of track that gives this formation it's name.  Depending how the train enters and exits the Wye, it can easily change it's direction and keep the locomotive at the front of the train.

8/20/17

I took today's image while I was in Silverton Colorado.  We had a 2 hour stop there where we could walk around the town and I chose to go watch the trains as they moved about.  This is one of the 3 trains that run each day as it was moving towards the Wye to turn around to head back to Durango.  You can see the 2 waterfalls created by the snow capped mountain in the background.  I had shared an image of these a couple of Monday's ago in an image I shot from the train.  The scenery is a big reason to ride the Durango & Silverton along with the old time steam experience.

7/31/17

Wow, it's the last day of July.  This summer is just flying by.  This is an image I took out in Silverton Colorado and I was surprised I got one without  train in it but I think I was on the train when I shot this.  😁 This is the view to the south of town and in July there was still snow in the Mountains.  In the lower area you can see two waterfalls created by the snow melt runoff.  The Durango & Silverton Railway ride is really great for beautiful views such as this.