Denver & Rio Grande Western #489, a 1925 Baldwin 2-8-2 steams downgrade through Tanglefoot Curve with a long train bound for Alamosa. This was a two day Friends of the C&TS charter that saw a larg... (more)
By the late 1950s the final chapter had been written for mainline steam in North America, with only a few exceptions, lines of dead steam locomotives awaited the scrapper's torch across the countr... (more)
Shortly before sunrise the 489 fills the morning air with smoke as it climbs toward Cumbres. This was part of a two day photo op sponsored by the Friends of the C&TS.
At 7:53 a.m. the 489 pulls away from the water plug at Cumbres to begin putting together three cuts of cars into a 30 car train for its trek down the east side of Cumbres. This was part of a two ... (more)
Three Rio Grande K-36 2-8-2s haul a freight up the steep 4% grade of Cumbres Pass out of Chama, New Mexico, on October 25, 2008. The train is rounding a curve between Lobato and Dalton west of mil... (more)