Denver & Rio Grande Western 488 leads its passenger train through the Los Pinos Valley under dark skies.

The Beauty of the Narrow Gauge Eureka & Palisade 4-4-0 "Eureka" and Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming 2-6-0 "Glenbrook" (both built by Baldwin in 1875) roll through the Lo... (more)

Water stop: Los Pinos Tank. After stopping to fill their respective tender cisterns, D&RG Locomotives #168 and 425 pull away from the Los Pinos Tank (MP 325.5) and begin climbing the last 5... (more)

Climbing through the Valley of the Los Pinos. D&RG Locomotives #168 and 425 haul their San Juan Passenger Extra across the wooden trestle at Los Pinos Creek (MP 324.52) as they make the lon... (more)

Eureka and Glenbrook steam away from the Los Pinos as the train approaches Cumbres Pass during the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup's "Across the Railroad" excursion from Antonito to Chama. ... (more)

Steamscape: Rio de Los Pinos Trestle. Eureka & Palisade #4 and Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company #1 cross the Rio de Los Pinos on the 175' wooden pile trestle at MP 324.52, as they ha... (more)

Steamscape: Victorian wood-burners in the Los Pinos Valley. A pair of narrow gauge, 1875 Baldwin wood-burners team up to pull a vintage freight past the Los Pinos Tank (MP 325.50), toward C... (more)

C&T K36 #487 and train bound for Chama, NM pass the Los Pinos Water Tank 10/5/16. D&RGW K36 #489 can be seen in the background, it held in the siding allowing the 487 to pass. This from day two ... (more)

D&RGW K36 #489 leads the 2016 Fall Photo Freight through the Los Pinos Valley enroute to Osier seen here at Los Pinos, CO 10/5/16. This is the second of a two day 2016 Fall Photo Freight organize... (more)

D&RGW K36 #489 leads the 2016 Fall Photo Freight across the Rio de Los Pinos Los Pinos, CO 10/5/16. This is the second of a two day 2016 Fall Photo Freight organized by the Friends of the Cumbres... (more)

Los PiƱos Tank
A stock train makes its way up the east side of Cumbres Pass, here passing Los PiƱos Tank. A few small acreages now dot this end of the valley, but when the states of C... (more)

She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain...

Our stock special is coming around a bend still high above the Rio de los PiƱos between Cascade Trestle and the los PiƱos tank. From a 201... (more)

On a beautiful fall morning, D&RGW #487 crosses the 175' trestle over the Rio de los Pinos at mile marker 324.5 with a stock train headed for Osier. We'll load cattle there.

From a 2... (more)

It's autumn in the Rocky Mountains, and the annual fall stock rush is in full swing on the D&RGW. Of course, these days the "stock" consists of tourists coming to look at fall colors in the high ... (more)