487 descends Cumbres Pass with and afternoon train

Rounding Coxo Curve, 489 and train head upgrade towards Cumbres.

Waking up the Chama Valley. With the alpine sunrise now just minutes away, our early morning Cumbres Turn charges up the 4% toward Coxo Crossing, with her stack beats echoing across the en... (more)

Steamscape: COLORado. D&RGW Locomotive #315 emerges from the "blazing" aspen forest at Coxo, Colorado, just prior to crossing Highway 17 for the 3rd time on the run to Cumbres P... (more)

C&TS 487 heads up the 4% grade with a freight special.

Replicating a scene that could easily pass for 90 years ago, the narrow guage Mike rumbles past some open range cattle country on the Rio Grande San Juan Extension with C&TS Train 216.

Locom... (more)

Steamscape: Windy Point from Perry's Pond. On a late summer afternoon, D&RGW 463 drifts down the 4% grade below Windy Point, passing the small beaver pond that has informally been named for... (more)

Steamscape: Cimbing Past Perry's Pond. Work Extra 315 is almost "home" now, just over 2 miles from the summit of Cumbres Pass and presently passing the tiny pond that has informal... (more)

C&TS 484 drifts downgrade near Coxo with the southbound "San Juan". A thunderstorm looms in the background, having dropped snow on the ground at Cumbres Summit an hour before.

C&TS 487 steam across Colorado State Highway 17 on a special evening run.

C&TS 487 hustles past Perry's Pond with a night dinner train bound for the pavilion at Cumbres Pass.

They named this place COLORado for a reason. D&RGW Locomotive #489 takes a cut of stockers and gons past a beautiful grove of aspens, just east of the Highway 17 crossing at Coxo, Colorado... (more)

Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad #489 coasts downgrade and reflects in Perry's pond. Behind the train is Windy Point, and Cumbres Pass, the mountain that this train has just climbed. But the mos... (more)

Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad #484 thunders past Perry's Pond on the last part of it's ascent to Cumbres, CO. Only two more miles of 4% grade lie ahead of this engine, and soon the train will... (more)

CTS #488 descends down Cumbres Pass with its Chama bound train at Coxo as it crosses over the highway 17 road crossing.