Bottom of the Whiplash - Flanger Extra 487 Eastbound. After doing a little plowing on the first day of our Flanger charter, the train turned at Big Horn and headed back to Antonito. Along... (more)

Plowing at Big Horn. Snow at last! Our special Flanger Charter encountered the first plowable snow just west of the Big Horn Wye. Just a few hundred yards further west from that, we too... (more)

In Search of Snow - Westbound at MP 292.5. MP 292.5 has become one of my favorite photo spots on the eastern side of the present-day Cumbres & Toltec line. It's a long, straight stretch o... (more)

Water at Lava. A D&RGW Flanger outfit rounds the Lava Loop and is about to pass the historic water tank as it heads west toward the high country.

The tank at Lava is no longer operationa... (more)

Desert Dawn. A D&RGW Flanger outfit heads west from Ferguson's Trestle at sunrise, on a mission to open the line to Chama via Cumbres Pass. On the back platform of his caboose, Extra 487's... (more)

Sunrise at Ferguson's Trestle. DRGW 487's Fireman is brightly illuminated by his red-hot fire as Flanger Extra 487 heads west over Ferguson's Trestle at sunrise, on a mission to clear the l... (more)

A work train heads west early in the morning to clear snow on the route to Cumbres. This was a two day charter by the Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec.

A brakeman rides the top of a stock car to spot the door for loading as a cowboy looks on at the cattle pens at Osier. This scene was part of a Lerro Productions charter on the Cumbres & Toltec Sc... (more)

Lava at sunrise. The first rays of October sun break over the sagebrush as a westbound D&RGW Freight negotiates the east side of the Lava Loop and an imminent stop to water the locomotives.... (more)

Osier: Water for the horses. Baldwin K-36 #487 eases up to the old D&RG water tank at the depot in Osier Colorado. Once the home of a section crew, Osier was a convenient way-station for t... (more)

Smoke and steam are things that typically add a lot of drama to steam engine photography. But it is a two edged sword. In this view I got a bit more smoke than I had bargained for. C'est la vie... (more)

Chama sunrise. With the newly risen sun filtering through the trees on the east side of the Chama Yard, the shop crew brings the 487 to a halt at the dual-spouted water tank. Having just c... (more)

Steaming along the River of the Pines... translated from Rio de Los Pinos, the Denver and Rio Grande Western #487 heads Westward towards Chama, New Mexico in the fading afternoon light.

Cumbres after dark. With her day's assignment as a helper now complete, a D&RGW K-36 simmers on the main in front of the depot at Cumbres Pass, with only the night hostlers keeping watch. ... (more)

Moon over Cumbres. Denver & Rio Grande Western K-36, Number 487 poses on the 84 ft. wooden trestle at Cumbres Pass, under a crystal clear, moon-lit sky. A 30-second exposure at ISO 500 and... (more)