I've been a postcard collector for a long time and this is the closest I've ever come a "postcard perfect" shot! Here's Cumbres & Toltec 487, with train 216 from Chama, nearing the summ... (more)

After departing Cumbres, 487 is racing a fast-moving storm as it heads through Coxo towards Chama.

C&TS 487 steams into Cumbres with train 215.

C&TS 487, with train 215 from Antonito, has left Los Pinos and is a few minutes out of Cumbres.

No. 484 has turned on the Cumbres wye and is preparing for the return trip to Chama.

Cumbres in the clouds. With low clouds and fog blowing in and out of the terrain just east of the 10,000 ft. high Cumbres Pass, Train 215 chugs slowly westbound into the Cumbres Loop, more ... (more)

By the late 1950s the final chapter had been written for mainline steam in North America, with the happy exception of those retained for excursion and public relation services, lines of dead steam... (more)

Golden hour switching moves. Having spent the day assisting 2 Cumbres Turns out of Chama, D&RGW Locomotive #489 now begins the task of assembling a 35-car freight that will make the trip t... (more)

Steamscape: The Chama Valley from Windy Point. Nearing the end of her climb to Cumbres Pass, D&RGW 489 rounds Windy Point, with the Chama Valley lit up in fall colors as a back-drop.

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Completing a Cumbres Turn. The crew of Chama-based helper Locomotive #489 performs a brief inspection and lubrication of their engine in front of the section house at Cumbres Pass (Elevati... (more)

A Grande Sunset: "On fire" at "Stein's Curve." Literally at the moment of sunset, a westbound Rio Grande Freight suddenly "catches fire" with solar glint, as it negotiates "Stein's Curve", ... (more)

On it's last run of the year, Cumbres & Toltec 488 stops it's train a the Cumbres Colorado Station to inspect the train and locomotive and also to pick-up two tired German Hikers

Restored RGS Goose 5, on loan from the town of Dolores, is running on the Cumbres and Toltec. Seen here at Cumbres in the last remaining bit of snowshed.

With the Galloping Goose running and incredible fall colors around, lots of people were chasing train 216 out of Chama, NM, on October 4. We decided to ditch the masses after the train passed Loba... (more)

Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad #489 smokes as it pulls into Tanglefoot Curve. Soon this train will traverse the track in the foreground as it surmounts the final grade into Cumbres. In the bac... (more)