At sunrise a freight crosses Ferguson's trestle about five miles west of Antonito. The event was a series of photo charters by Bernd Seiler of FarRail Tours.

It's a mostly cloudy July morning as Cumbres & Toltec K-36 No. 489 leads the fireman/engineer school train up the grade towards Cumbres Pass at Dalton, New Mexico on July 21, 2015.

Sitting in Chama, New Mexico, a Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad train, led by 2-8-2 489, waits to depart. This former Rio Grande K-36 Mikado (the last of ten built by Baldwin in 1925) looks mass... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western K-36's #485 and #487 get in position next to the coal tower for servicing prior to their next assignment that will likely include surmounting the grades of the San Juan... (more)

A Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad passenger train climbs the 4-percent grade of Cumbres Pass past the watertank at Cresco, Colorado, on August 28, 2004.

A Steam Specials charter on the Cumbres & Toltec does a pretty good job of recreating a long westbound DRGW freight snaking its way up the winding route up the canyon of the Rio de Los Pinos to Cu... (more)

A "Cumbres turn" much in the way the DRGW would have hauled cars to the top of Cumbres pass 50 years ago. A Steam Specials charter. A similar scene taken 50 years ago can be found Railroad: Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Chama, New Mexico, USA
Locomotive #: DRGW 484/DRGW489
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 28, 2015

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)

The next to last southbound train of the year crosses a bridge about 4 miles from terminating in Chama. The weather had cleared up so railfans could close out the Cumbres & Toltec's year with some... (more)

On it's last run of the year, Cumbres & Toltec 488 stops it's train a the Cumbres Colorado Station to inspect the train and locomotive and also to pick-up two tired German Hikers

D&RGW lettered K-36 locomotives 489 and 484 pose atop Cumbres Pass alongside an interloper from the Rio Grande Southern. Michael R. Ripley [Rio Grande NG Photographer] provided the lighting (sync... (more)

After taking water at Cresco tank, Engineer Jeff Stebbins is getting his train underway. While starting his train on the 4% grade to Cumbres Pass, Jeff is also keeping an eye on the photo line, t... (more)

Extra 484 East, with helper locomotive #489, climbs Cumbres Pass during a Historic Transport Preservation (SteamSpecials) photography charter led by Michael Allen and John B. West.

With the Galloping Goose running and incredible fall colors around, lots of people were chasing train 216 out of Chama, NM, on October 4. We decided to ditch the masses after the train passed Loba... (more)

Running a Maintenance charter for the 'Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec,' locomotive 463 starts the train up after stopping briefly on a curve outside of Sublette.