Rain, steam and narrow gauge. In the middle of a light down pour #487 swings around the last loop of the Tanglefoot Curve with a string of passenger cars in tow.

Cooling its heels while the student crew goes to beans, K-36 #484 stands at the precipice of the steep 4% grade down to Chama.

After cutting away from the eastbound passenger train, K-36 helper #488 takes a trip around the wye at Cumbres Pass to return light to Chama.

Just cresting the summit at Cumbres Pass, K-36 Mikados #488 and 489 slow for a station stop as a brave dog darts across the tracks ahead of them.

Opening Cumbres Pass after a brutal winter in 1997.... The Rotary Snow Plow is cutting into a deep drift as it approaches Windy Point....

With dignitaries from the Railroad Commission on board, No. 487 has backed its train into the Cumbres snowshed to drop them off for lunch at the new pavilion.

D&RGW lettered K-36 locomotives 489 and 484 pose atop Cumbres Pass alongside an interloper from the Rio Grande Southern. Michael R. Ripley [Rio Grande NG Photographer] provided the lighting (sync... (more)

Fifty years ago on the shortest day of 1963, D&RGW 488 makes a gallant showing as it climbs out of New Mexico into Colorado with the 3rd Cumbres Turn. At Cumbres Pass the three sections of frei... (more)

It's the fifities in the Rockies as a "Mudhen" with a westbound extra freight crosses Cumbres Pass in the deepening twilight as the photographer channels Otto Perry. That fake oil headlight is le... (more)

A C&TS photo freight train works uphill toward the top of Cumbres Pass as seen from the rear of the train. This may be the C&TS in 2008 but not much about this image keeps it from being the DRGW 5... (more)

Rio Grande 485 (489) pulls a freight into Cumbres Pass during a Lerro Productions Photo Charter.

After shooting the Los Pinos water tank with the Milky Way in 2010, I then wanted to shoot a steam locomotive in the same fashion. It would be nearly a year and a half later when I would get my ch... (more)

C&TS Mikado 483 emerges from her own smoke after rounding Windy Point in the late afternoon. For the last hour she has been climbing the 4% grade from Chama, NM. She is pulling a special train, co... (more)

On Friday 10-2-2009 the C&TS ran a moonlight dinner train to Osier using D&RGW 2-8-2 487. After hustling from Colorado Springs I made it to Chama just in time to catch its departure and followed i... (more)

A day on the narrow gauge in the height of the fall colors is not a bad way to spend the day.