On the Rio de Los Pinos. Along the route from Osier, CO to Cumbres Pass, the old D&RGW line makes a couple of rather interesting detours that enable the railroad to gain considerable elevat... (more)

Alamosa to Chama via Cumbres. Having taken water just 7 miles back at Osier, the Chama-bound 487 and her string of stockers charge past the well-worn Los Pinos Tank on the climb to Cumbres ... (more)

Here's an old pan I took back before I was even born, featuring DRG&W #485, scrapped in 1955. This photo is not possible to take today (but it was last week after #489 dressed as #485 for a day, ... (more)

DRG&W #487 with it's freight sits in the siding giving priority to DRG&W #485 with a passenger train bound for Chama. Just another day on the DRG&W, as it has been for over a 100 years.

Rio Grande #487 and consist travel West through the Los Pinos valley en route towards Chama. A Lerro Productions charter.

Getting a run at it D&RGW 487 West blasts up the hill on the west side of the Los Pinos valley with a 14 car freight train bound for Chama, NM. The C&TS hosted a Pete Lerro Productions photo frei... (more)

Steamscape: Los Pinos Horseshoe Curve. The daily train from Antonito, CO to Chama, NM rounds the horseshoe curve at the north end of the Los Pinos Valley on its slow climb to Cumbres Pass. ... (more)

Just as the moon sets behind the mountains at Los Pinos, the Milky Way emerges in the dark night sky to create a scene I could never capture on the east coast. I have been wanting to capture this ... (more)

Driftin' down to Los Pinos Tank. The crew of DRGW #484 has the cylinder cocks open as they drift down the hill toward the water tank at the north end of the Los Pinos Valley. The sun is o... (more)

Long out-of-service 2-8-2 483 works a C&TS train westbound on the east approach to Cumbres Pass in better days. These were the early days of the C&TS before passenger cars replaced the converted ... (more)

The 487 pulls a passenger train up grade past Los Pinos water tank. It's just a few more miles before it makes it to Cumbres, after which it will be all down hill.

The 315 zips past the Horseshoe curve at Los Pinos. This was a photographers special where the photographers rode in a special chase train ahead of the 315.

Los Pinos Trainset. From this perspective, this Cumbres & Toltec excursion train really does look like sweet G-scale garden layout as she rounds the hairpin curve at the north end of the L... (more)

A photographers special is traveling through the Los Pinos Valley as a chase train for the 315. There are plenty of cattle grazing throughout the valley and they seem to be oblivious to the train.... (more)