A Cumbres turn approaches the west switch to Cresco siding while climbing to Cumbres. The cars will be left at Cumbres and the engines and caboose will return to Chama. After spending another ni... (more)

Moving at a snail's pace, Rio Grande No.480, a class K-36 built by Baldwin in 1925, teams with No.491, a class K-37, to take five tank cars, three cars of lumber and seven box cars to the t... (more)

A double header smokes it up as the train leaves Chama

I love the smell of coal smoke in the morning. With the brilliant September sunlight streaming through the trees on the east side of the yard, DRGW 487 approaches the Chama Water Tank for h... (more)

Pit Crew for the Chama Choo-Choo. Day after day, from late May through early October, members of the Chama Shop Crew perform their afternoon ritual of inspecting their locomotives and prepa... (more)

At the end of a long day, K-36 487 (Baldwin, 1925) pauses near the Chama coaling tower to take on more sand before having her fire cleaned.

What could easily be a scene from D&RGW Narrow Gauge operations in the Fifties, a couple of Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad mechanical employees discuss their next move in the care & maintenance ... (more)

Doubleheading past Jukes' Tree. The 4th doubleheader of the 2011 Cumbres & Toltec excursion season charges off the Rio Chama Bridge and past a large, odd-looking pine tree that has acquired... (more)

DRG&W #489 subs as infamous DRG&W #485, back from the scrap yards after falling into the turntable pit in Salida in 1953. The engine returned to 2011, alas only for 24 hours.

DRGW #487 arrives at the water tank for a drink. Water flows from the tender as the crew wets the dusty coal. A light from a speeder shines behind as it will along the entire trek to Cumbres an... (more)

DRGW #487 pulls up to the ash pit early one morning ready to dump her ash - a scene that has been repeated for nearly 100 years. Afterward, the crew will bring the engine past the coal tipple and... (more)

Yet another day dawns on Cumbres & Toltec Railroad using engines built in the early 1920's, continuing a practice that started in the early 1880's by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.

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)

DRGW 484 Howls against gravity on a long photo freight. The last colors of Fall are coming to in end in the High Country.

K-36 #487 leads the 10am train out of Chama, NM with #488 on the side track waiting to take the 11am train to Cumbres Pass.