Cumbres and Toltec 488 takes on water at the Los PiƱos Tank. On this day 488 suffered a mechanical issue and would have to limp back to Chama.

Cumbres & Toltec 487 crosses over the wooden bridge at Cresco.

Denver & Rio Grande Western 487 nears the top of the 4% grade as it rounds a curve at Windy Point on a sunny August afternoon.

"Where the Mountains Touch the Sky" A land where mountain tops reach for the sky and autumn leaves begin to turn captures the true culture of the American Heartland American culture. ... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western 487 nears the top of the grade at Cumbres Pass with its freight train on a sunny August day.

Denver & Rio Grande Western 487 leads its passenger train up the 4% grade at Windy Point on a beautiful August afternoon.

The coal-fired steam locomotive K-36 488, built in 1925 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, has just reached the top of Cumbres Pass.

Crossing the Rio de los Pinos. A Rio Grande freight rumbles across the timber trestle that spans the Rio de los Pinos at Milepost 324.52, as it works north in the valley named for this rive... (more)

The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad morning train out of Chama navigates the shelf of Windy Point as it climbs the 4% grade out of the Rio Chama Valley up into Cumbres.

Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 has just finished climbing the east slope of Cumbres Pass as a helper on a double-headed passenger special the afternoon of August 27, 2021. The locomotive is abo... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY and outfit train, powered by a pair of K-36 Mikados, plows to the top of Cumbres Pass on March 1, 2020. The train has almost reached the 10,022-foot pass... (more)

Smoke, steam and cinders fly into the cold Colorado sky as Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY and an all but invisible outfit train plows through the last bit of crusty snow before reachin... (more)

A view of the wooden trestle across the Los Pinos river during the first day of the Toltec Rattler Redux event. While the weather is slowly improving, clouds from the storm which brought the first... (more)

That 70's Show: Redux

Meanwhile, we've trucked on down the other side of 'The Great Divide' while still remaining in the time-warp to 1972, we find the newly created 'Cumbres a... (more)

That 70's Show: Redux

Meanwhile, we've trucked on down the other side of 'The Great Divide' while still remaining in the time-warp to 1972, we find the newly created 'Cumbres a... (more)