Plowing snow between Dalton, New Mexico, and Cresco, Colorado is Cumbres & Toltec Rotary OY and outfit train on the afternoon of February 29, 2020. Pushing the steam-powered plow is K-36 Nos. 487 ... (more)

The Air Up There

Cumbres and Toltec K-36 No. 487 leaps over Wolf Creek on Lobato Trestle on a spectacular fall afternoon. The former Denver and Rio Grande Western Narrow Gauge... (more)

Same as it ever was...

Conductor Ray Martinez brings K-36 487 to a hook to its train on a warm October morning. No radios here, as Ray talks through his body movements to let ... (more)

Who's Model Railroad is this Anyways?

Cumbres and Toltec 487, a Mikado built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western, coasts by Cresco Colorado's water tank on its decent of from... (more)

Cascade Chasm

Cumbres and Toltec 487, a Mikado built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western, steams across Cascade Trestle between Osier and Cumbres Colorado.

Simple Sleeper. The more than decade long restoration of Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) 470 (Pullman narrow gauge Tourist-Sleeper Car, 1889) is nearing completion at the Pike's Peak Trolley... (more)

C&T K36 #487 and sister #489 team up on a morning departure from Chama, NM, passing Lobo Lodge 9/26/18. At Cumbres Pass, the #487 will be set off and utilized on a ballast train.

C&T K36 #487 and sister #489 team up on a morning departure from Chama, NM, passing Jukes Tree 9/26/18. At Cumbres Pass, the #487 will be set off and utilized on a ballast train.

C&T K36 #487 and train bound for Chama, NM pass the Los Pinos Water Tank 10/5/16. D&RGW K36 #489 can be seen in the background, it held in the siding allowing the 487 to pass. This from day two ... (more)

C&T K36 #484 pulls its train down from Cumbres Pass to Chama, NM past the beaver pond at Coxo, CO 10/4/16. Windy Point, from which the train descended, is visible on the top left.

C&T K36 #489 leads the morning departure from Chama past the Cresco, CO water tank 10/4/16. This is from the 2016 Fall Photo Freight from the Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec. The photo freight... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY breaks through the snowbank at the County Road 445 grade crossing at Dalton, New Mexico, on February 29, 2020. The rotary was operated by the C&TS for ra... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s steam-powered Rotary OY and outfit train throws snow off the right-of-way at Dalton, New Mexico, on February 29, 2020. This special train was operated by the C&T... (more)

Clouds of steam accompany Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s steam-powered Rotary OY and outfit train as it approaches Coxo, Colorado, on March 1, 2020. The train was operated as part of C&TS’ 50t... (more)

CTSR 15 and Mikado 487 sit forlornly in the suspension of service. CTSR was leased in 2013 from Oahu Railway & Land Co.