A version in color of our Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge freight as it sits under a quickly setting sun taking on some water prior to a departure to Chama. One of several unstaged scenes to b... (more)

A C&TS photo freight train works uphill toward the top of Cumbres Pass as seen from the rear of the train. This may be the C&TS in 2008 but not much about this image keeps it from being the DRGW 5... (more)

Rio Grande 485 (489) pulls a freight into Cumbres Pass during a Lerro Productions Photo Charter.

A double header smokes it up as the train leaves Chama

I love the smell of coal smoke in the morning. With the brilliant September sunlight streaming through the trees on the east side of the yard, DRGW 487 approaches the Chama Water Tank for h... (more)

Pit Crew for the Chama Choo-Choo. Day after day, from late May through early October, members of the Chama Shop Crew perform their afternoon ritual of inspecting their locomotives and prepa... (more)

At the end of a long day, K-36 487 (Baldwin, 1925) pauses near the Chama coaling tower to take on more sand before having her fire cleaned.

What could easily be a scene from D&RGW Narrow Gauge operations in the Fifties, a couple of Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad mechanical employees discuss their next move in the care & maintenance ... (more)

Osier is used as a stopping point for lunch roughly midway on the line from Antonito, Colorado to Chama, New Mexico. Before the railroad, Osier was a toll station on the road from Conejos to Cham... (more)

Beautiful COLOR...ADO !! During the fall months, this State very well desserves its name.

Storm in bleue sky.

Last runpast of the day.

C&TS 489 leading the daily Chama-Antonito passenger train as it nears the top of Cumbres Pass on a beautiful summer day in southern Colorado.

Steamscape: Perry's Pond. The daily train from Antonito to Chama has just departed Cumbres Pass and begun the hour-long, downhill drift toward its destination. After crossing Highway 17 in... (more)