Steamscape - Los Pinos Valley. A Denver & Rio Grande Western K-36 hauls a string of stock cars and mixed freight up the Los Pinos Valley, on the westbound run to Cumbres Pass. The train i... (more)

The Rio Grande never sleeps. The D&RGW Chama night hostlers position a K-36 helper locomotive for a drink at the yard's dual-spouted water tank, in preparation for a heavy sunrise freight t... (more)

Cumbres after dark. After watering their locomotive, the crew of a late-night, Rio Grande freight hold at Cumbres Station, awaiting their orders to proceed down the 4% grade to their final ... (more)

Round 'em up! They're not happy, but their ride to market has arrived and it's time to load up. A cow-poke cracks the whip to get his herd together prior to entering the loading chutes at ... (more)

Loading livestock at Osier. The crew of a D&RGW stock train carefully aligns the doors of one of its cars with the loading chute at the stock pens in Osier, Colorado. A local rancher, sen... (more)

Steamscape - Hamilton's Point. A Cumbres Turn hammers up the 4% grade at Hamilton's Point on a chilly morning in September. This location is believed to have been named for L.C.Hamilton, a... (more)

Time-travelers meet at Los Pinos. A Lerro Productions Photo Freight sits in the hole at Los Pinos Siding to allow the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad's regular, daily westbound run out of ... (more)

Cumbres Pass - Elevation 10,015 MSL. A Chama-bound freight eases up to the water plug in front of the depot at the storied Cumbres Pass Station. Once a very busy waystation on the D&RG Nar... (more)

Steamscape - Tanglefoot Curve. A westbound D&RGW freight ascends the last 100 vertical feet to the 10,000 ft. high Cumbres Pass over a curvaceous, mile and a half stretch of track, known as... (more)

On the Rio de Los Pinos. Along the route from Osier, CO to Cumbres Pass, the old D&RGW line makes a couple of rather interesting detours that enable the railroad to gain considerable elevat... (more)

Alamosa to Chama via Cumbres. Having taken water just 7 miles back at Osier, the Chama-bound 487 and her string of stockers charge past the well-worn Los Pinos Tank on the climb to Cumbres ... (more)

Hammerin' up to Windy Point. A Rio Grande Freight slowly claws its way up the last few hundred yards toward the prominent rock formation known as Windy Point, which overlooks Cumbres Pass. ... (more)

Cumbres Vista. The crew DRGW 485 takes in the afternoon vista from the summit of Cumbres Pass, as they pause just west of Cumbres Station before proceeding down the 4% grade to Chama. Of ... (more)

Perfect Plumage. Engineer Bill Colley wraps a gorgeous gray plume around the point as he brings his mixed freight east (compass west....LOL!) onto the famous High Line Horseshoe Curve in Ro... (more)

Steamscape - Shalona Lake. The stillness of a snowy winter morning in the San Juan Foothills is shattered by the explosive stack talk of a D&RGW K-28 as it claws its way along the rock ledg... (more)