Flashbulb? What's a Flashbulb?....it's all Ambient Light! Good Morning it's 0500 hrs in Chama New Mexico...and the greatest steam charter of the year is just about ready to get under way!

At the Water Tank

Morning Ritual

C&TSRR K-36 #487 west of Osier, CO lunch house, where the Chama and Antonito trains meet.

487 pulls its train past the water tower a few miles outside of Chama. The water tower was never used but built for a movie set.

Early Morning at the Chama Water Tank...Nikon D70, with a polarizing filter. SouthWestRails.com

The Jukes tree gets blasted by the exhaust from three hardworking engines, heading for Cumbres Pass.

As though through a reversed slide...the reflection of #487's tender is "right", in the reflection of the locomotive's own blow off. SouthWestRails.commore)

K-36 #487 brings a tripple header around Windy point, heading to Cumbres, during the peak fall color season. Will we ever see this again?

Looking down from "Kodak Rock" the eastbound passenger train puts on a show as it assaults the final grade to Cumbres. SouthWestRails.com

Down by the station early in the... actually, it's late evening but tomarrow is a doubleheader so I might as well get the two before they head out... Sout... (more)

K-36 #487 passes the Jukes Tree, heading for Cumbres Pass.