All four active engines on the C&TS gather around the double-spout water tank in Chama Yard. A FarRail/Lerro Productions night photo session.
Behind the scenes: Charter extraordinaire, Pete Lerro at it again. While patrons slept nice and comfortably, DRGW #489 was secretly transformed into famed DRGW #485, the engine that fell ... (more)
Ex-D&RGW #489 departs Cumbres after a water stop.
Ex-D&RGW K-36 #489 pulls the day's train outbound from Chama up Cumbres Pass. Of note is that the tender of 489 is now lettered for the C&TS, when in past years the tenders were lettered for the R... (more)
Here is a window to Chama. 489 does the switching chores while a storm passes over. A drop bottom gon is parked where the coal would be dropped so coal buckets would carry the coal to the top of t... (more)
489 has just pulled up to the water tank at Chama. It will take on water and then the spout will be used to clean out the coal bunker.
On October 24, 2009 The C&TS ran their end of season freight train as a triple header up to the summit of Cumbres Pass. Seen here just a mile out of Chama. While most of the other photographers we... (more)
The 489 takes on water at Chama.
C&TS 489, lettered for the DRGW, slogs up the 4 percent grade toward Cumbres Pass on a cold and wet spring day. It is the second Chama train of a new season. It has been a tough day, with slick ... (more)
