One constant about the scenery along the San Juan Extension was and is the fences, showing how large a role cattle played in the railroad. Today, no cattle are riding the train, but it is full of... (more)

One can try to look away from an on-coming steamer, but with a plume like that, they just have to look back. C&TS 484 leads its train out of the Narrows and towards Lobato.

Westbound Cumbres & Toltec Scenic railway coming through the west end of Toltec "Rock" Tunnel. Elevation 10000 ft on a rainy day. The sun broke through just in time as this train came through the ... (more)

Chama Steam 2007...around Windy Point...the end of a 2-Mile Long (in one direction) Runby.

Engine 484 is in the lead and just beginning the decent down Cumbres pass to Osier station for Lunch. Firebox cinders started a trackside fire that will soon be put out by the crew that follows th... (more)

While clearing snow and ice on April 25, 1999 for the spring opening of the railroad, C&TS 484 (lettered DRGW for photo charters) hit ice in the flangeways and derailed just west of Los Pinos tank... (more)

Conductor to Work Extra 484, Soni, give um Lots of Smoke and Highball!"

The train is dwarfed by the mountain top of Windy Point, as it fights the home stretch to the top.

In October 1992 John Craft ran a series of charters on the C&TS. During the week, while all the engines were hot, CMO John Bush had the brainstorm of lining all the engines up in numerical order ... (more)