C&TS 489 stomps up to the water plug at Cumbres Summit with the morning train from Chama, New Mexico.

Cumbres & Toltec K-36 No. 488 climbs up the remaining portion of the 4% grade as the train comes into Cumbres, Colorado, the summit of Cumbres Pass on July 21, 2015. Here, the train will take on w... (more)

The eastbound Cumbres & Toltec Scenic train finally reaches the 10,015 foot summit of Cumbres Pass. Here, CTS #484 will take on water before continuing it's trip east.

After taking on water at the summit, the eastbound fireman/engineer school train departs Cumbres, Colorado on July 21, 2015 with C&TS K-36 No. 489 doing the honors.

The weather could not be any better as Cumbres and Toltec K-36 No. 484 leads the westbound passenger train from Antonito down the 4% grade at Coxo, Colorado below Windy Point on July 21, 2015.

After stopping for water, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad's 2-8-2 steam locomotive #488 pulls the westbound Antonito to Chama passenger train over the summit of Cumbres Pass during a beautiful su... (more)

September 27th and 28th saw peak fall colors on Cumbres Pass, and here it's easy to see why! C&TS 487 brings 10 cars down the 4%, just past the old siding of Coxo. The first 3 of these cars were... (more)

After bringing 15 cars of happy passengers up the 4% grade from Chama, Cumbres & Toltec K36 #488 has just stopped at the top to fill its tender with water before uncoupling to head back to Chama. ... (more)

Pete Lerro put together one of the most authentic photo freights to yet roll over the C&TS. In this view high above Windy Point it could almost be 1957. How many times over the past century has ... (more)

Descending through the storm. A light rain envelopes "Perry's Pond" and its environs as a westbound train decends Cumbres Pass in 1940... Er, 2014, with a load of pipe for the Oil Fie... (more)

K-36 #487 simmers at Cumbres Depot after a Lerro photo charter

Steamscape: Tanglefoot Curve. Train 215, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad's daily westbound out of Antonito, Colorado, slowly ascends the eastern leg of Tanglefoot Curve, with the vast ... (more)

Laying on the smoke for the Railfans.... 487 Climbs Tanglefoot Curve under a smoke screen only the Steam Fan could appreciate.

I thought Lerro put on on a great recreation of an authentic Cumbres turn. There was only a slight breeze, but that is enough to pull the smoke ahead of the slow moving Mikados.... Clamoring up ... (more)

At last I have gotten to see an operating "mudhen". Made my year. That headlight was used apparently in the movie "Rio Grande". What I am wondering is, did the locomotive ever operate in black ... (more)