Narrow Gauge Photos
Of Colorado and New Mexico
Mountain Railroads

Bill Payne's photos

All of these narrow gauge photos were taken by fellow Nottawasaga Model Railway Club member, Bill Payne, during a vacation trip in the late summer of 2012 he and his wife took to explore the legendary railroad locations in Colorado and New Mexico.

The narrow gauge photos were taken on the Durango & Silverton railroad and at Chama, New Mexico, Strasburg, the Georgetown Loop, Silverton and Durango.

Bill also spent time at the Colorado Railway Museum in Golden and took some photos around the shops in Strasburg. He lent me his photo album so I could build this page of narrow gauge photos.

For modelers, these narrow gauge photos may help capture the feel of the mountain scenery or show you some details of engines and cars to assist you in your modeling efforts. For railfans who have been to the area or wish they could visit, Bill's photos will certainly give you a good feeling.

Click on the thumbnails of the narrow gauge photos that catch your eye for a larger view.


Georgetown	Old Georgetown station	Durango station sign

Durango station	Durango coach	Silverton Engine 486

Engine 486 running gear	Boxcar 3134 with train	Stopped train

Track with fill hugging cliff wall	Excursion on s-curve beside cliff	View from coach of train on curve

Looking down into chasm	River below cliff	Train hugging cliff side

Train close to edge of bridge. Scary!	View of river from bridge	Passing old freight cars

Cars on siding	Old flat car	Taking on water for the boiler

Closeup of water tank	Water spout	Lodge "in the middle of nowhere"

town	town with aspen covered mountain	The Legion Hall

Hotel	Silverton City Hall	Main street stores

Bill Payne by locomotive	MOW crane	Ballast cars

Mountain scenery	Aspens in early fall foliage	Tank car

Locomotive wheels	Closeup of locomotive trucks	Durango & Silverton coach

Durango & Silverton engine 486	486 on turntable	Sign about structures on premises

Cumbres & Toltec tender 482	tender	round water tank

Scrapped flat car	Scrapped flanger	Wheel car

Flanger plow	Fuel rack (Chama?)	Wedge plow

Yard trackage	Coaling tower	Rio Grande engine 492 scrapped

Side view of engine 486	Closeup of pistons and drivers	Cumbres & Toltec loco near engine house

Head on view of engine 488	Scrapped D&RGW reefer	Denver & Rio Grande Western caboose 0503

D&RGW caboose 0579	yard area	Engine house

Tender 488	Rotary snow plow	Scrapped snow plow as office

closeup of rerailer	OMR rotary snow plow	Sign at Chama, New Mexico

Locomotive sign	Cripple Creek locomotive	Station turned into museum

Cripple Creek water tank	Cripple Creek locomotive #2	Side view of engine #2

Strasburg station	Front view of station	Observation car Rico

Coach on siding	Interior of coach	Short wooden boxcar

Rio Grande caboose 578	D&RGW flanger	Sign on flanger

Closeup of flanger pistons	Sign on locomotive 491	Side view of #491

Angle view of engine 491	Front of engine 491	Coors reefer

0-4-0 tank engine	Colorado Southern rotary snowplow	restoring locomotive

Machinery inside repair shop	Colorado Museum sign	D&RGW loco 346

Locomotives at turntable	A Galloping Goose	Diesel switcher 130

Turntable bridge tracks	Turntable locking mechanism	"Armstrong" lever (hand-operated turntable)

Argentine Central shay locomotive	Closeup of shay gearing	Engine 14's pilot

Closeup of shay pistons	Cab of shay	Tender section of shay

Georgetown Loop sign	Engine running gear	Closeup of side rods

A scrapped coach	Cars on steel trestle	The Colorado Museum model railroad