RailPictures.Net Photo: DRGW 487 Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Steam 2-8-2 at Lobato, New Mexico by Kevin Madore

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» Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (more..)
» Steam 2-8-2 (more..)

» Orgasm Curve (MP 336.2)
» Lobato, New Mexico, USA (more..)
» October 23, 2012

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Steamscape: Orgasm Curve. A pair of Chama-based K-36s take a cut of freight cars through the stretch of track that has come to be known as "Orgasm Curve". There are a number of tales in circulation as to how this curve got its current name, the most believable of which says that the name was coined AFTER the D&RGW stopped running freight up this line....in other words, the name came about during the Cumbres & Toltec era. At any rate, the name apparently had more to do with the activities of teenage couples, who frequented the parking area at the top of the mesa in the center of this photo, than it did the heightened state of excitement of railfan photographers who come here each morning to grab those nicely lit shots of mountain railroading at its finest!

A Lerro Productions Charter.

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