| Riding Colorado Trains July 13-19, 2009 |
| Rio Grande Scenic RR Round trip - Alamosa to LaVeta |
| Rio Grande Scenic RR Round trip - Alamosa to Monte Vista |
| Caboose Hobbies (Denver) "World's Largest Model Train Store" (self-proclaimed) |
| Denver's Union Station |
| Union Pacific #844 Longest-service, Never-retired Steam Loco in US pulled the Frontier Days Rodeo Train |
| Union Pacific's huge helper diesel loco coupled behind UP #844's second tender provided extra pulling horsepower and downhill dynamic braking |
| (The engineer invited me to ride up in the cab!!) |
| Some of the meticulously restored passenger cars in the Rodeo Train (there were eighteen passenger cars + tool car + party car + locomotives) |