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)
A normal train running up the 4% grade out of Chama is 7 cars. There are 4 coaches, a rider gondola, and 2 parlor cars. Occasionally, ticket sales increase to the point where some extra cars need ... (more)
Denver & Rio Grande Western K-37 2-8-2 no. 491 leading an eastbound extra freight train up Cumbres Pass at Windy Point, New Mexico, in July 1961. Photograph by 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)
Replacing some ties on the reverse loop in the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s yard in Durango, Colorado, is Maintenance-of-Way gang Unit 870 on October 15, 2014.
A chartered photographers freight battles the legendary Cumbres Pass line of the former D&RGW Railroad. C&TS 487 leads while 488 shoves on the rear. A beautiful morning on a beautiful railroad.
Work preparing the former Rio Grande Mikados for another busy season has already begun at the Durango and Silverton’s roundhouse at Durango, Colorado, on October 15, 2014. On the right is “Spo... (more)
An eastbound photo freight charter crosses Ferguson's / Hangman's Trestle roughly 7 miles west of Antonito, CO.
Night photo shoot with DRGW463 and assorted clientel prior to a photo freight run the following day
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)
With fall color peaking in the San Juans, the last train of the day crosses the Animas River on the Tefft Bridge, just north of the Cascade Wye.
K36 #481 in Silverton
K36 #481 hauling a train from Durango to Silverton
Daybreak: Antonito Colorado, 1939. From the Chama Steam Excursion.
In pouring rain, D&SNG 481 chugs into the cut leading the train to the High Line above the Animas River Gorge.
