Mid Afternoon finds the Extra 487 West hauling a stock train upgrade along the gently sloping Los Pinos River
It's the late October in the 1950's, and a Pipe Train is threading its way through the San Juan Mountains with a few extra stock cars tacked on for a deadhead move to bring livestock back to the L... (more)
C&TS GM Soni Honneger and Conductor Allan Loomis attemt to get Caboose 05635 back on the rails after a somewhat bumpy derailment
After rounding the horseshoe bend inbetween Lobato and Dalton, Work Extra 487 (actual lead locomotive is behind the Pile Driver) Climbs out of the Chama River Valley, and into the Wolf Creek Drai... (more)
A little lesson in Grade Here... Chama is at 7,875 ft, Hamilton's Point, where this photo is at is aprox 9,500 ft. With a 4% Grade barking up this hill. If you look towards the Horizon on the lef... (more)
I was the far guy on the photo line...
Here Comes the Sun...with apologies to George Harrison
Crossing the Grande...
Because of the Concert Series at Fir Summit on the railroad on Fridays amd Saturdays during the month of August, We're Running 18 to Monte Vista on a mixed Freight.
Train 9, the final train of day is climbing the hill just south of Red Lake at Sunset
SL&RG 18 is pumping up her train in preperation for the day's photos...
