A Golden Coxo

Intense color of Fall lines the narrow gauge as a double header and steamed up passing the lake at Coxo.

Under the Juke’s Tree

From under that famous tree in delightful Fall morning light the daily passenger train rolls up the grade for Cumbres Pass.

Fall Color at Coxo

The valley is echoing from the double header working up to Cumbres Pass on the Cumbres & Toltec.

Water from the Tank

Like gold glowing in the brilliant Fall morning light; water on the deck flows from the tank. Chama, NM

Big country, little train. A stock train crosses the Rio de los Piños on a wood pile trestle at milepost 324.52 on its climb up Cumbres Pass. From a 2011 Lerro Productions charter.

Los Piños Tank
A stock train makes its way up the east side of Cumbres Pass, here passing Los Piños Tank. A few small acreages now dot this end of the valley, but when the states of C... (more)

Fall colors are a week or so away from peak, but hints of yellow and red cover the hillside as our stock special climbs the 4% grade up Cumbres Pass. From a 2011 Lerro Productions charter.

Cowboy Up!
A drover rides the top of a stock car to assist D&RGW #487's crew in spotting one of the cars at the chute. This is the stock pen at Osier, and there are cattle in the pen wa... (more)

She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain...

Our stock special is coming around a bend still high above the Rio de los Piños between Cascade Trestle and the los Piños tank. From a 201... (more)

Our stock special waits at Los Piños siding for the daily passenger train for Chama to pass. It's a flawless "chamber of commerce" fall afternoon in the southern San Juans From a 2011 L... (more)

I was traveling to Chama, NM early on a Friday evening to spend a weekend shooting fall colors on the C&TS when I ran into a surprise as I crested Cumbres Pass on Hwy 17. A short eastbound train ... (more)

On a beautiful fall morning, D&RGW #487 crosses the 175' trestle over the Rio de los Pinos at mile marker 324.5 with a stock train headed for Osier. We'll load cattle there.

From a 2... (more)

Taking coal at Monero.

Crossing the Los Pinos River between Osier and Los Pinos, Colorado, is a Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad photo freight led by 2-8-2 K-36 No. 487 on October 25, 2008. With the locomotive relette... (more)

River routes use gravity and follow the topography of the landscape they go through, and are rarely ever in a straight line. In some ways, to get through rugged land, railroad’s right-of-ways ar... (more)