Watch a freight climb to Alpine

Watch an 1880s freight work the grade from Woodstock to Alpine on George Sebastian-Coleman's layout!

Ride an iCar from the Palisades to Woodstock

I was impressed by George Sebastian-Coleman's layout recreating the west slope of the Alpine Tunnel.

Waitin' for the next train from Alpine Tunnel

Just "found" this old photo of me from a trip with my wife in 2004.  Waitin' for the train.

Laying track in Como 77 years after it got hauled away.

When the last scrap train pulled out of Como in 1938 hauling the rails with it, who would have thought we would see this day (below) 77 years later.

This photo is from the Como Depot Facebook page post (July 19, 2015) showing track being laid outside the renovated Como depot.

C&S 60 gets a nose job :)

I can't tell how refreshing it is to see so much work going on to save and beautify remaining C&S equipment.  Not only is the Como depot being dedicated this summer, but No. 60 in Idaho Springs is getting some lovely TLC.

The Colorado & Southern Railway Society recently posted the following to Facebook:

60's Smokebox has been completely needle scaled and repainted. The first photo represents the look of the smokebox was finished being painted with the graphite based paint mix.

The second photo is the smokebox after the mix dried which took over a day. After drying the surface had hardened and needed to be buffed with a steel wool to bring out the graphite luster. The close up photo shows the smokebox door after an hour of buffing the graphite which lightened the color considerably....When finished this color is meant to represent the accurate look of C&S locomotives in service.