Snow Fighter

Rotary steam powered snow plow OY is in the battle for the fight with deep snow on its accent up Cumbres Pass. In full view, Windy Point and Cumbres Pass is lo... (more)

In a torrent of heavy freezing and cold rain at Cumbres Pass #487 struggles up to the pass on the wet rail. The first signs of a long Winter on the pass are evident with the coming of the late Fal... (more)

Golden Hour at Ferguson's. The sagebrush are still casting very long shadows as DRGW Mudhen #453 charges upgrade from Ferguson's Trestle, on the westbound run to Chama via Cumbres Pass.

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Sunrise at Ferguson's. DRGW K-27 Mudhen #453 steps across Ferguson's Trestle at MP 285.87, just moments after sunrise, hauling a freight westbound toward Chama and Durango, via Cumbres Pass... (more)

SLRG 459 switching in the late afternoon at Antonito.

Randy, a volunteer for the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, makes welds in bolt holes below the coupler housing where a plate will hold the coupler's draft gear and the coupler its... (more)

Former DRGW Rotary OY is displayed in Antonito before being moved to Chama, NM and restored to operation by the CATS.

The 10am passenger train from Antonito catches some sunshine on a mostly cloudy morning as it works its way through the high desert of southern Colorado and into northern New Mexico from where I a... (more)

In the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s enginehouse at Antonito, Colorado, Rio Grande 4-6-0 T-12 No. 168 undergoes an extensive restoration on June 6, 2018. The three-foot gauge Ten-Wheeler was ... (more)

In the car shop at Antonito, Colorado, on June 4, 2018, Denver & Rio Grande Western RPO No. 65 (065 in work service) get totally rebuilt by the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. The 3-foot gauge c... (more)

D&RGW 2-8-2 #453 rolls across Hangman's Trestle, as the sun rises over Colorado's San Luis Valley. #453 was renumbered from its usual #463 for this Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec charter.

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.

D&RGW 2-8-2 #453 leads a freight train westbound near Hangman's Trestle MP 285.8 on the C&T on its climb out of the San Luis Valley. #453 was renumbered from its usual #463 for this Friends of th... (more)