Through the Looking Glass... Or at least a reversed digital image as though you put the slide in the projector backwards.

K-36 #487 drifts past the coaling tower at Chama with freight train in tow.

K-36 Mikado 489 leads the daily train up the 4% grade to Cumbres Pass, three miles outside of Chama, NM.

Filling up #463 with coal for the grueling climb to Cumbres Pass. That day #463 would double head with #484 to the summit. From there, #484 would be cut off of the front of the train and #463 woul... (more)

Chama is a time capsule - particularly in the morning when the smell of hot cylinder oil and coal smoke is in the air and the engines are being prepared for another day of work. It's a credit to t... (more)

The classic outside frame 2-8-2s charging up the 4% grade may be more glamorous, but there is a lot of behind the scenes work to make that happen. A speeder crew follows each steam train with the ... (more)

After making the 64 mile trip from Antonito, 489 turns her train on the wye at the end of the day, passing the old stock pens which the Friends of the C&TS are hoping to restore as they have so ma... (more)

Another stormy Rocky Mountain evening falls on this old K-37. It is one of several out of service K-37s throughout the state. #491 at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden is the only currently operati... (more)

After a hard day's work, a pair of C&TS's 4 operational K-36s rest outside the Chama shop.

Rio Grande 315 sits out the summer on display near the Chama depot until called upon to pull the occasional charter. She was build for the Florence and Cripple Creek in 1895 and was restored by th... (more)

Sometimes you don't want a caboose. The 315 had to take a cut of cars up the hill to Cumbres, but the four percent to too much for all the cars and a caboose, so the caboose was left behind. Thi... (more)

The westbound San Juan Express heads out of Chama for Durango....actually just the daily C&TS train heading west out of town to the end of modern day track to turn on the wye, but with a full yard... (more)

489 receives some attention from her crew after arriving from Antonito as the passengers de-train.

487 pulls away from the engine house to be readied for her day as helper engine up the hill to Cumbres.

After completing her run from Antonito, 489 is topped off with sand at the end of the day.