Denver & Rio Grande 425 (D&RGW 315 backdated to its 1917 appearance and number) sits in the yard at Antonito alongside C&TS K-36 489 and Rio Grande Southern 20 on the second day of the Victorian I... (more)

Rio Grande 489, recently converted from coal to oil, has been holding down the Antonito-Osier most of the summer. The state of Colorado, along with the rest of the southwest, is experiencing an e... (more)

Bedded down under a blanket of stars. Five operational, narrow gauge steam locomotives, all of which were built before 1900, share the yard in Antonito, Colorado, at the start of the Cumbre... (more)

Another Harbinger

Another sign of the future of narrow gauge railroading in the intermountain west as Cumbres and Toltec #489 departs Antonito on a cloudless August day. The c... (more)

Antonito Sunset. After completing a day-long round trip to Osier with fans and photographers on board, Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Co. #1 "Glenbrook" and her running mate, Eureka & Pali... (more)

Steam, smoke and sagebrush. Feeling right at home amidst the desert dust and sagebrush, two pretty Nevada gals haul a vintage freight upgrade on a beautiful summer morning in the year 2021,... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad K-36 No. 489 leads the Antonito to Osier passenger train around a curve at track speed as it approaches Hangman’s Trestle (aka Ferguson’s Trestle) at mile 285.... (more)

A rare and historic sight! Just a hundred yards or so west of the US 285 crossing and just inside the Antonito Yard Limit, Eureka & Palisade #4 "Eureka"and her running mate, Carso... (more)

Together again after 146 years. Sharing the two remaining stalls in the old D&RG Roundhouse in Chama, New Mexico are two, narrow-gauge, wood-burning Baldwin steamers that were literally bui... (more)

K36 487 puts on a beautiful show, with a photo freight during the fall season of the 1989. I don't thing the colors can get much better. (Tom Ellis photo)

After departing the depot at Cumbres Pass, CTS 487 glides downgrade towards Chama, NM with an excursion train.

After plowing the former Rio Grande narrow gauge main line east to Cresco, Colorado, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s Rotary OY rests in front of the coaling tower at Chama, New Mexico, on the... (more)

Steam powered rotary snowplow OY is pushing through some of the larger drifts on it's way to the Colorado/New Mexico border, where the days work will end. Hardly a soul around to see this extrav... (more)

After departing Chama, New Mexico, on the morning of February 29, 2020, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s Rotary OY begins to throw some snow passing milepost 329 approaching “the narrows.”... (more)

The second locomotive in the consist, CTS 484, and the remainder of the train have to wait for the first locomotive and Rotary OY to cross Lobato Trestle due to a weight restriction on the bridge.