A cold October morning sees this C&TS special charging into the steepest part of the climb to Cumbres. The grade here reaches close to 4.1%

Steamscape: Lobato Trestle. The crew of DRGW 488 opens both firebox blow-down valves as they take their Chama-bound passenger train across the legendary Lobato Trestle on a warm August afte... (more)

Please don't discount the "flipside" of the C&TS. In many ways the experience is the most authentic of the three ex-D&RGW trips. The scenery starts out stark and evolves into spectacular. The t... (more)

The engineer and conductor review orders during a station stop at Osier.

K-36 #487 leads the 10am train out of Chama, NM with #488 on the side track waiting to take the 11am train to Cumbres Pass.

C&TS K36 #489 leads the daily Chama-Antonito train as it gets underway passing the often photographed water tower leaving the yard in Chama for the climb over Cumbres Pass. A walk through the yard... (more)

Cumbers & Toltec Scenic 487 has just arrived in Antonito with its train from an all-day run across Cumbres Pass from Chama, NM and is seen here about to cut away from its train at the depot and mo... (more)

Eastbound and westbound trains of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad meet at Osier, CO and are waiting for passengers to reboard after eating lunch.

Ex-D&RGW #489 departs Cumbres after a water stop.

Ex-D&RGW K-36 #489 pulls the day's train outbound from Chama up Cumbres Pass. Of note is that the tender of 489 is now lettered for the C&TS, when in past years the tenders were lettered for the R... (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)

Portrait of the CTS K36 #484 at Cumbres

The next train to leave Antonito is a photo freight train hauled by the K37 #495. If only this could be reality! Does anybody know if it is planed to restore one of the class K37 locomotives to wo... (more)

CTS 487 is simulating a volcanic eruption with its freight train to Chama. By chance, no housewife was hanging laundry out in the neighbourhood!