Smoke and cinders fly as DRGW 463 a Mudhen along with a K-36 attack Cumbres Pass with nine cars in tow. This was only the second doubleheader of the season for the C&TS.

A trio of K-36's are gathered outside the engine house in Chama as the sun prepares to disappear from the western sky. The locomotives gathered around the engine house tonight are the 484, 488, 48... (more)

K-36 488 coasts downhill just below Cresco tank on its way to Chama only about 10 miles ahead.

Resting peacefully inside the Chama, NM engine house, Baldwin K-36 number 488 waits her next tour of duty.

Shortly before sunrise the 489 and a work train make a photo runby at Lava. In the background the San Luis Valley is covered by fog with a few hill tops looking like islands. Our train was heade... (more)

The snow flies and Engineer Max Casias watches intently as he makes another plunge into the deep snow drift, much as the DRGW might have cleared the line 60 years ago. It took five or six such pl... (more)

Rotary OY approaches Coxo crossing below Windy Point. The snow is not very deep here, but deeper drifts lay ahead on Cumbres pass.

489 is steamed up and fit with a plow to lead tomorrows flanger special for photographers on the east end of the CT&S.

Westbound around Los Pinos loop. In the old days this used to be a really dramatic location with a sweeping curve in a beautiful mountain meadow, but these days unless you want a number of rather... (more)

This image is a bit of an experiment. This is just a very small portion of the full frame (thus some noise), and not the image I was trying to get. But the distant mountains looked nice, as did ... (more)

Freshly overhauled K-36 #489 is hauling a freight special over the old Lobato trestle. As mid engine K-36 #488 is helping moving the mixed freight train over the gradient. #489 has had it's firs... (more)

In the shadow of its own plume the day's run from Chama fights the grade as it nears the (then) newly reopened Lobato Trestle.

My first encounter with former D&RGW narrow gauge railroading came on a C&TS excursion from Antonito to Chama on a beautiful September day.

The smallest caboose I have seen. Looks like something on a HO Gauge layout.

At last I have gotten to see an operating "mudhen". Made my year. That headlight was used apparently in the movie "Rio Grande". What I am wondering is, did the locomotive ever operate in black ... (more)