Christmas/Holiday Trains

Canon City & Royal Gorge SD9 5305 and GP7u 2238 lead the road's Santa Express Train out of the Canon City, CO, depot on Saturday, 9-Dec-2006. (CRRX 5305 is, of course, ex-DRGW 5305.)
By: ND Holmes

Bringing up the rear is F7A 403. Since there are no turning facilities out at Parkdale, the trains operate with a locomotive on each end.
By: ND Holmes

After waiting a bit for the UP dispatcher to give the train a signal at West Canon City, they head on out of town.
By: ND Holmes

And the train slips into the inaccessible reaches of the Royal Gorge...
By: ND Holmes

The other group out running a holiday train on Saturday was the Pueblo Railway Museum, with their Pueblo Express runs. The train consisted of Colorado & Wyoming 103, along with two cabooses, making the short run between the museum's tracks behind the depot and the end of the line, over near the Riverwalk behind the old power plant.
By: ND Holmes

DRGW 01432, one of two cabooses used on the Pueblo Railway Museum's train, backs around the corner from the power plant
By: ND Holmes