D&RGW MOW Equipment: Cook Car 053. When a work train is out on the line, there's no telling how long the crew is going to be away from their base. Whether cleaning up a derailment, or figh... (more)

D&RGW MOW Equipment: Pile Driver OB. A crew from the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec holds a short safety briefing in front of Pile Driver OB, prior to setting the machine up and conducting... (more)

D&RGW MOW Equipment: Derrick OP. This fine example of narrow gauge Maintenance of Way (MOW) equipment is Derrick OP. Built in 1911 by the old Denver & Rio Grande Railroad's Alamosa Shops... (more)

DRGW K-36 #484 is seen shortly after departing Antonito for Osier and eventually Chama, NM.

The ex-DRGW 484 and 489 head a 35 car train west from Antonito with the sun just over the horizon. This was a Historic Transport Preservation (Steam Specials) charter. The fact so many freight ca... (more)

Westbound! Having left Alamosa, at O-Dark-30, a Rio Grande Freight greets the dawn in the wide-open desert just west of Antonito, on the westbound run to Chama via Cumbres Pass.

2 Locomotives, 35 Cars. A Denver & Rio Grande Western freight breaks the early morning silence of the Colorado Desert just outside Antonito, as she charges westbound toward Chama, New Mexic... (more)

A Grande sunrise at Ferguson's Trestle. Denver & Rio Grande Western's Locomotive 484 rumbles across Ferguson's Trestle near MP 286 at the crack of dawn as the vanguard of a 2-engine, 35-car... (more)

Still lettered "Rio Grande" for a special steam charter trip earlier in the week, C&TS K36 484 leads a long 11-car train 215 west out of Chama with caboose 0306 on the rear. For the nex... (more)

The Sange de Cristo Range can be seen in the background as Cumbres & Toltec K-36 No. 489 leads the fireman/engineer school south near Hangman's Trestle about a few miles south of Antonito, Colorad... (more)

K-37 495 greets visitors as they arrive at the Antonito, Colorado, terminal grounds of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.

484 is working its way towards the shop after bringing in the daily passenger train from Chama.

Shortly after sunrise a Historic Transport Preservation (Steam Specials) charter on the C&TS rounds the big curve at Lava, on its way to plow snow farther up the line. In the distance the San Lui... (more)

C&TS winter photo charter operated by Historic Transportation Preservation, Inc. (Steam Specials).

Silhouetted against the Sangre de Christo Mountain range of Southern Colorado, the daily eastbound train of the Cumbres and Toltec trundles across the southwester edge of the San Luis Valley on it... (more)