The Toltec Rattler Redux at Windy Point - worth the whole trip in one photo. To mark the 50th anniversary of their first photo charter, the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic RR ran 2 photo freights on Oct... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec 489 thunders through Coxo before climbing onto Windy Point and arriving in Cumbres Pass.

Cumbres & Toltec 484 struggles to hold onto the wet rails as she slips upgrade at Stateline Curve.

Cumbres & Toltec 484 powers up the 4% grade through Colorado's ruthless summer thunderstorms.

Windy Point looms in the background as Cumbres & Toltec 484 passes Perry's Pond.

Cumbres & Toltec 484 leads Train 215 down the 4% at a spot known as the "S" Curve.

"Coxo Crossing" - Cumbres and Toltec 484 works up toward Cumbres at a popular location for photographers, the Highway 17 Crossing at Coxo.

Cumbres & Toltec 489 pulls 5 cars up past volcanic rock formations at Windy Point, making easy work of the short train.

Cumbres & Toltec 484 charges up the 4% grade at Cresco, passing by an old D&RGW water tank constructed in 1893.

Cumbres & Toltec 484 thunders upgrade at Windy Point, rounding a curve that passes by volcanic rock formations. She climbs up the last of the 4% grade to Cumbres Pass.

C&TS 484 goes around Tanglefoot Curve before arriving at Cumbres Pass on the westbound trip back to Chama.

Cumbres & Toltec's morning departure out of Chama makes its assault on Cumbres Pass seen through this Photoshop composite to display the elevation changes the train makes.

Rounding Windy Point The fireman aboard C&TS 484 has the 2-8-2 hot with a clean stack as the daily train between Chama and Osier comes around Windy Point on the last leg of the trip to Cumb... (more)

Sea of Snow
A sea of snow in the mountain valley awaits the slow steady march of the machine of oil and coal and sweat.

Chest Deep
The battle rages on at the Summit of Cumbres Pass.