Laid down for the evening, two of the C&TS Railroads K-36's simmer at the Chama shop facility.

A chartered photographers freight battles the legendary Cumbres Pass line of the former D&RGW Railroad. C&TS 487 leads while 488 shoves on the rear. A beautiful morning on a beautiful railroad.

K-36 #487 simmers at Cumbres Depot after a Lerro photo charter

Engine 487 sits while taking on water at Cumbres Pass. 487 will continue onto Osier as a special dinner train.

On a beautiful fall day a double header departs Chama headed for Cumbres. The colors were fantastic this particular year. I became of fan of the narrow gauge late in life but fortunately I was abl... (more)

Cresting the summit of Cumbres Pass, elevation 10,022 feet, the daily C&TS eastbound passenger train slows to a stop to take water next to the old depot.

My first encounter with former D&RGW narrow gauge railroading came on a C&TS excursion from Antonito to Chama on a beautiful September day.

The old Baldwin number 487 leaves Chama, New Mexico on a sunny day. The engine crosses the Rio Chama River Bridge about half a mile outside of town. The climb begins up the very scenic 4% grade to... (more)

It is 1950 and Rio Grande No. 487, a K-36, stops for a drink at the yard's dual-spouted water tank in preparation for a heavy freight to Cumbres. In reality this scene was captured during a Pete L... (more)

Getting a run at it D&RGW 487 West blasts up the hill on the west side of the Los Pinos valley with a 14 car freight train bound for Chama, NM. The C&TS hosted a Pete Lerro Productions photo frei... (more)

D&RGW 487 West negotiates a tight almost horseshoe curve at Long Creek, CO with a 14 car freight train bound for Chama, NM. Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad hosted a Pete Lerro Productions photo... (more)

D&RGW 487 West drifts downgrade at Dalton, NM with 13 cars and a caboose bound for Chama Yard with a heavy cut of loaded livestock on the head end. The train crews primary concern now is controll... (more)

The engineer and conductor review orders during a station stop at Osier.

On Friday 10-2-2009 the C&TS ran a moonlight dinner train to Osier using D&RGW 2-8-2 487. After hustling from Colorado Springs I made it to Chama just in time to catch its departure and followed i... (more)