Randy, a volunteer for the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, makes welds in bolt holes below the coupler housing where a plate will hold the coupler's draft gear and the coupler its... (more)

Former DRGW Rotary OY is displayed in Antonito before being moved to Chama, NM and restored to operation by the CATS.

The 10am passenger train from Antonito catches some sunshine on a mostly cloudy morning as it works its way through the high desert of southern Colorado and into northern New Mexico from where I a... (more)

In the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s enginehouse at Antonito, Colorado, Rio Grande 4-6-0 T-12 No. 168 undergoes an extensive restoration on June 6, 2018. The three-foot gauge Ten-Wheeler wa... (more)

In the car shop at Antonito, Colorado, on June 4, 2018, Denver & Rio Grande Western RPO No. 65 (065 in work service) get totally rebuilt by the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. The 3-foot gauge c... (more)

D&RGW 2-8-2 #453 rolls across Hangman's Trestle, as the sun rises over Colorado's San Luis Valley. #453 was renumbered from its usual #463 for this Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec charter.

An HTP 35 car charter freight heads west toward Osier around MP 317. The Friends of the C&TS helped make such a long train happen.

D&RGW 2-8-2 #453 leads a freight train westbound near Hangman's Trestle MP 285.8 on the C&T on its climb out of the San Luis Valley. #453 was renumbered from its usual #463 for this Friends of th... (more)

After the crew of Denver & Rio Grande Western C-18 No. 315 has loaded bags of sand in the sand dome, a little housekeeping is in order as the running boards are swept clean of errant granules. The... (more)

C&TS K-37s #s 487 and 484 rest by the engine shop (not a round house because, well, it's not round) on a sunny warm summer afternoon.

Denver & Rio Grande Western C-18 No. 315 and Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad K-36 No. 484 rest in front of the enginehouse at Antonito, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 4, 2018. The next day, N... (more)

With thunderstorms rolling past to the northwest, the crew of Denver & Rio Grande Western C-18 No. 315 loads bags of sand in the sand dome, while in the background, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroa... (more)

In the 1940's, Rio Grande Southern often leased some of the D&RGW's older locomotives including C-18 #315. On one of those leases, #315 works as a midtrain helper pushing hard against a heavy frei... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #455 storms uphill on it's way to Lizard Head Pass with another heavy freight train. Six cars back, leased D&RGW #315 shoves on the train as it climbs the steep grade. It r... (more)