Out for a late-summer stroll. In the pretty light of a late August afternoon, RGS Motor #5 glides down the 4% grade just below Cumbres Pass, approaching the Highway 17 crossing at Coxo, Col... (more)

"Came a mighty strange contraption known to trainmen as a motor". The lyrics of Colorado story-teller Bill Fries' (aka C.W. McCall) 1970s song "Gallopin' Goose" come to ... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic train 216 is working its way up Cumbres Pass on a rainy, cloudy morning. K-36 No. 484, built in 1925, will come back to Chama later in the day with train 215 from Antonito... (more)

Eureka rolls downgrade at Coxo heading back to Chama after a test run to Cumbres.

Valley of Gold

The Intense color of Fall south of Cumbres Pass near the state line between Colorado and New Mexico. Climbing the grade among the aspen a dance of light and sha... (more)

D&RGW K27 #463 leads mixed freight at Coxo, CO 10/4/16, and is climbing to Cumbres Pass, 1015'. Windy Point can be seen on the top left. From the 2016 Fall Photo Freight from the Friends of the ... (more)

C&T K36 #484 pulls its train down from Cumbres Pass to Chama, NM past the beaver pond at Coxo, CO 10/4/16. Windy Point, from which the train descended, is visible on the top left.

Clouds of steam accompany Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s steam-powered Rotary OY and outfit train as it approaches Coxo, Colorado, on March 1, 2020. The train was operated as part of C&TS’... (more)

Breakout! After several minutes of hard plowing, Rotary OY and her train finally break through the 3 foot snow pack and onto Colorado Highway 17, with Pilot Marvin Casias leading the charge... (more)

Plowing the deep stuff at Coxo. As the Cumbres & Toltec's Rotary Outfit approaches the Highway 17 crossing at Coxo, the game begins to change. For most of the run from Chama to this locat... (more)

Steamscape: Perry's Pond. There are no pretty reflections, just shadows this day, as the Cumbres & Toltec Rotary Outfit claws its way through the last quarter mile toward the Highway 17 Cro... (more)

After getting a fill of water from the Chama Fire Department at the Highway 17 grade crossing at Coxo, Colorado, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY plow outfit heads upgrade toward the loc... (more)

Steam, smoke and snow
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY approaches Colorado Highway 17 grade crossing at Coxo, Colorado, on March 1, 2020. The steam-powered rotary plow is being... (more)

Rotary OY approaches Highway 17.

The Rotary train passes the photo charter participants.