#480

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#SBahnBerlin Baureihen #480 #481 am #ostbahnhof

Shut the fuck up when you hear his love talking 💜🖤💜🖤💜

𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒: loja dos murray.

❛ eu enviei flores para o hospital. um vaso de verbenas, para ser exata. e um cartão, desejando melhoras. ❜ por mais que houvesse uma mancha no sobrenome murray, eles ainda eram parte das famílias fundadoras.

I know most of you aren't train ppl (and even if you are you might not know where or what this all is) so I'm going to intersperse a smidge of background into this. Starting! with where we are:

as you can see, these are some steep mountains we're in the folds of here, and there's a steam train running through them. (among other fun things as you can see.) I found myself on the very last day of january 2026, in an ol railroad town called Durango, deep in the San Juan mountains of colorado. Here there exists a portion of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad's 3 foot gauge track and equipment, preserved, operated and maintained by the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. They run year round excursions usually at least one departure a day, and are host to some of the most preserved classes of locomotives in the world. It's a hell of a collection they've got here, and you really can't say they let it sit and rot in a museum.

But I am not here for the Durango and Silverton's usual fare. Delightful though it is, it is not the most salient reason I've made the 8-ish hour drive north from where I live in new mexico to this tiny mountain town.

The most salient reason is Rio Grande Southern #20. Who for the past month had been running excursions from the depot in Durango, to the wye in cascade canyon and back, one extra departure every day. (and even more technically unscheduled fun stuff I didn't get to attend)

This is special for two reasons: The first being that this is not where #20 is usually stabled, or even unusually. She rode the back of a truck over some of the RGS's original alignment from Golden, colorado, (where she usually runs at the Colorado Railroad Museum) to get here. The second reason being that this is not the first time that RGS 20 has run upon these rails. You see, this angry little elf of a locomotive is a movie star. Back in 1950, when the RGS and the D&RGW were still actually neighboring railroads in the area, a film crew came and dressed 20 up like it was 1850 and not 1950. A Ticket to Tomahawk was filmed then on this very branch of the D&RGW, and RGS 20 played the quite central to the film locomotive "Emma Sweeny"

And so here in the closing days of 25' and the opening ones of 26', she returns. Not to home, but to familiar rails; and certainly compared to her contemporary home in golden, the air up there must feel quite fresh.

During our second day of shooting, the first of february, we went down to the station early enough see 480 roll out from the backshops and onto her train. Number 480 is here restored to her 1930's appearance for the events of the last while at the D&S. Once they departed, I was free to shoot 20 at the station, waiting for the passengers to board. (crowds permitting, witch fortunately for me, they more or less did.)

And that, imo, is every single photo I took during this trip fit to print. But I was not the only one holding a camera on those two days... in fact, for quite a lot of those two days, I was holding the steering wheel of our car, and my roommate filmed quite a lot of pacing. Pacing that I have cut together into a video!