Coming up to the standpipe at the Cumbres Pass Depot, Train 216 tops the grade at an elevation of 10,015 feet, 2,152 feet higher than the origin for the train 1 hour and 19 minutes earlier.

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Replicating a scene that could easily pass for 90 years ago, the narrow guage Mike rumbles past some open range cattle country on the Rio Grande San Juan Extension with C&TS Train 216.

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Now just feet remaining inside New Mexico, the K-36 swings around the several S-Curves near Hamilton's Point and its train obediently follows on the way to Antonito.

Locomotive: CTS 484

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Now just feet remaining inside New Mexico, the K-36 swings around the several S-Curves near Hamilton's Point and its train obediently follows on the way to Antonito.

Locomotive: CTS 484

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Train 216 whistles for the Highway 17 grade crossing, now just a couple miles from the Colorado State Line, and still gaining elevation.

Locomotive: CTS 484

7-26-16
Dalton, NM

Still gaining elevation, and over 2,000 feet to go before the summit of Cumbres Pass, C&TS Train 216 headed for Antonito makes a tremendous racket as it churns upgrade.

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The eastbound from Chama passes the Lobo Lodge, just past Lobato Trestle.

Locomotive: CTS 484

7-26-16
Lobato, NM

The morning's eastbound out of Chama chuffs up what was once known as the Rio Grande San Juan Extension towards Antonito just shy of Lobato Trestle.

Locomotive: CTS 484

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The morning's eastbound out of Chama slams up the stiff grades and sharp curves of the Rio Grande San Juan Extension towards Antonito.

Locomotive: CTS 484

7-26-16
Chama, NM

The CO-NM Express C&TS Train 216 is pounding upgrade out of town over the Chama River and past Jukes' Tree on the former Rio Grande San Juan Extension for Antonito, CO behind former DRGW K-36 #484... (more)

A pair of Former DRGW K-36's and a K-27 "Mudhen", all hot, congregate at the Chama shop near a recently repainted Flanger OK. The 484 will power tomorrow's eastbound train to Antonito. ... (more)

After making a run west to Parkdale, a Royal Gorge Route Railroad passenger train makes its way back into town along the Arkansas River towards the Santa Fe Depot where its passengers will disemba... (more)

Shortly after leaving the service stop at Greeley, UP Train PDVCB3 24 is balling the jack on a northbound run ahead of a strengthening thunderstorm. This is an equipment deadhead move from the Ch... (more)

844 and 1989 head past an old wooden UP boxcar in the edge of a wheat field with UP Train PDVCB3 24, northbound on the UP Greeley Sub. This is an equipment deadhead move from the Cheyenne Frontie... (more)

Roadswitcher BNSF Train R PWR4503 23I waits in the clear at Sand Creek on the BNSF Brush Sub. while BNSF Train Z CHIDEN7 22A sneaks past into town under a double rainbow. The Z Train was the firs... (more)