An HTP 35 car charter freight heads west toward Osier around MP 317. The Friends of the C&TS helped make such a long train happen.
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad #484 pulls a freight through Los Pinos as part of their engineers school.
Cumbres & Toltec K-36 #489 brings the passenger train through the small yard at Chama,NM on its way to wye the train.
C&TS Mikado 487 claws at the near 4% grade on the Cumbres & Toltec mainline just outside of Chama.
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad K-36 class 2-8-2 #484 pulls a 12 car engineers school freight train through 'Windy Point' nearing the top of Cumbres Pass in southern Colorado.
C&TS #484 pulls 10 freight cars and two cabooses on its way east towards Osier.
We lucked into catching the last two days of Cumbres & Toltec's engineers school. They were using K-36 class #484 pulling 9 freight cars and a caboose seen here a couple miles west of Los Pinos.
Easing through the snow covered yard at Cumbres Pass, a snowplow-less 488 rolls down the main track. The first snows of the season have already fallen with a few days left in the railroad's seaso... (more)
In the waning days of the 2018, Locomotive 487 of the Cumbres and Toltec begins blasting up the 4% grade to the summit at Cumbres here at "The Narrows". Hand held pan shot: 1/40 sec a... (more)
Drifting downhill in a tunnel of aspen
Narrow gauge double header on a perfect fall afternoon, not much else to say other than it's even better to hear it in person!
Cumbres and Toltec 487 double header passing Juke tree in Chama
Cumbres and Toltec 315 at Dusk
The daily Antonito-Chama passenger train traverses a barren, tranquil area on it's mountain-climbing route.
The Cumbres & Toltec was extremely busy on Saturday, September 29. Beside the two “regular” trains from Chama and Antonito, there was a charter photo freight from Antonito and Osier, and a Gal... (more)