Opening Cumbres Pass after a brutal winter in 1997.... The Rotary Snow Plow is cutting into a deep drift as it approaches Windy Point....

Would you believe it is May 4. After a heavy winter the Cumbres in Toltec had to bring out Rotary OY to get the line cleared for the summer season. What an incredible site to see a steam powered R... (more)

Cookin' rivets. As a crew of riveters works to fasten a new smokebox to a boiler under overhaul, a female colleague is busy heating the rivets and transferring them to the work site. In t... (more)

Passing through the Cascade Canyon wye area while en route from Silverton to Durango in the rain.

A very riveting scene.... As one of their colleagues moves to position a cherry-hot rivet in the smokebox of a narrow gauge locomotive, one of our "Rosies" positions herself to bu... (more)

The DRGW K-28 class mikes were mean looking machines with the front mounted air pumps and low profile. This tight view emphasizes a wealth of details on the engine in the soft light of an overcas... (more)

Now traveling almost compass south, the Train 216 is nearing MP 324 and crosses the Rio de los Pinos River in front of Pinorealosa Mountain. We had to break off here and head back for Kansas City... (more)

C&TS Train 216 swings through another one of the abundant S-Curves on the line headed towards Antonito. The train will soon drop down another hill, and then through a horseshoe curve, running bac... (more)

Now coming downgrade from Cumbres Pass, the train negotiates the east end of Tanglefoot Curve as the engineer lets loose with some melodious whistling.

Locomotive: CTS 484

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Coming up to the standpipe at the Cumbres Pass Depot, Train 216 tops the grade at an elevation of 10,015 feet, 2,152 feet higher than the origin for the train 1 hour and 19 minutes earlier.

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Now just feet remaining inside New Mexico, the K-36 swings around the several S-Curves near Hamilton's Point and its train obediently follows on the way to Antonito.

Locomotive: CTS 484

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Now just feet remaining inside New Mexico, the K-36 swings around the several S-Curves near Hamilton's Point and its train obediently follows on the way to Antonito.

Locomotive: CTS 484

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Train 216 whistles for the Highway 17 grade crossing, now just a couple miles from the Colorado State Line, and still gaining elevation.

Locomotive: CTS 484

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Still gaining elevation, and over 2,000 feet to go before the summit of Cumbres Pass, C&TS Train 216 headed for Antonito makes a tremendous racket as it churns upgrade.

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The morning's eastbound out of Chama chuffs up what was once known as the Rio Grande San Juan Extension towards Antonito just shy of Lobato Trestle.

Locomotive: CTS 484

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