Commemorative freight train celebrating the last freight from Chama in August 1968 fights the 4% grades toward the pass. Note the rear helper per the 1968 practice on the grade here.

Commemorative freight train celebrating the last freight from Chama in August 1968 switches her train after the eastbound helper cutoff.

Cumbres and Toltec doubleheader commemorative of 1968 last D&RGW narrow gauge freight out of Chama enters the Chama yard at the end of its 2 day show.

Cumbres and Toltec doubleheader commemorative of 1968 last D&RGW narrow gauge freight out of Chama enters Tanglefoot curve westbound toward Cumbres Pass

The start of another work day. The passenger train conductor heads over to #484 to confer with the engineer.

Comin' 'round the bend.

The Trains Magazine 50th anniversary freight train takes the passing siding at Sublette to make way for the tourist passenger train.

The Trains Magazine 50th anniversary freight train blast past the Los Pinos water tower on its way back to Chama.

Back in time this train would have been full of cattle or sheep. But today this stock train is working hard to Cumbres around Cresco tank on the Cumbres and Toltec.

Denver and Rio Grande Western No. 315 a Class C-18 poses for the camera on the last photo shoot of the day on a photo charter during Narrow Gauge Fest on the Durango Silverton RR.

Rio Grande C-18 2-8-0 No. 315 heads for the ashpit at Cumbres & Toltec’s yard at Chama, New Mexico, on June 5, 2018. C&TS K-36 2-8-2 No. 484 waits its turn in the background.

Rio Grande C-18 2-8-0 No. 315 switches at Chama, New Mexico, on the afternoon of June 5, 2018. Baldwin built the locomotive for Colorado’s Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad before going to the R... (more)

#483 is stopped at Bondad on the way back to Durango after a run sown to Farmington, New Mexico.

Easing down the steep grade from Cumbres Pass, the Engineer & Fireman School train passes Cresco Tank.

Having made its meet with the eastbound passenger train, K-36 #484 climbs through the curve at Los Pinos, bound for Cumbres Pass.