Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s snowplow Rotary OY gnaws through an icy snowpack atop 10,015-foot Cumbres Pass, Colorado, on March 1, 2020. This special run of the plow was done to kick off t... (more)

An unusual two engine train approaches Coxo Crossing on the C&TS. Not strictly speaking a "double-header" but not a mid-train helper either, this unusual configuration was due to the need for ext... (more)

D&RGW #485 is backing its train into the remains of the snowshed which covers the tail of the wye atop Cumbres Pass, the high point of the C&TS at 10,015'. Of course, the real #485 was irreparabl... (more)

Cumbres Silhouette

At the end of a long day of shooting on a Lerro Productions two day event on the C&TS, we set up for a star shot. With 2-8-2 #489 (today lettered for the ... (more)

Impact! My camera captures the instant that the charging rotary outfit makes explosive contact with the dense, 4 ft. deep snow pack in the yard at Cumbres Pass. The violence you see out in... (more)

Charge! After stalling out briefly in the dense, 4 ft. deep snow-pack on Cumbres Pass, the Rotary Outfit has backed up perhaps one car-length, and with two blasts of the small, shrill whist... (more)

Rotary OY reaches Cumbres Pass. Looking very much like it might have perhaps 80 years earlier, Rotary OY and her snow-fighting outfit reaches the snow-bound section house at the summit of C... (more)

Working toward Windy Point. Just 40 minutes after leaving Coxo Crossing, the Cumbres & Toltec's Rotary Outfit works its way along the ledge above Coxo, headed for Windy Point, just ahead. ... (more)

This is about as far as Cumbres & Toltec’s Rotary OY outfit train is going to plow on March 1, 2020. It was quickly stopped after breaking though the crusty snowbank along Highway 17, and is now... (more)

Doing Battle with the Snow: Rotary OY charges up Cumbres Pass, spewing out a large cloud of snow. While snow was fairly light at the lower elevations, the drifts were significantly deeper f... (more)

Rio Grande K-37 No. 497 departs Cumbres, Colorado, in the midst of an autumn snowstorm atop Cumbres Pass on September 17, 1996. The Mikado is pulling a freight train chartered for photographers on... (more)

Approaching Cumbres Pass. With her pops lifting and her Fireman's injector going full-blast, DRGW 453 hauls a mixed freight the last mile up the eastern approach to the 10,000 ft. Cumbres P... (more)

"Tanglefoot Lake" (MP 329.6). DRGW 453 throws a reflection in the pond of standing water along Tanglefoot Curve, as she completes her climb to the 10,000 ft. high Cumbres Pass, ju... (more)

After helping a freight train on the eastern grade of Cumbres Pass, Rio Grande 2-8-2 K-27 No. 463 heads back to Chama light engine ahead of the freight on September 17, 1996. Snow is flying on top... (more)

A westbound Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad photo freight led by K-37 No. 497 waits on the main line as K-27 No. 463, used as a mid-train helper to the summit of Cumbres Pass, trundles by light e... (more)