Denver & Rio Grande Western #489, a 1925 K36 mikado storms upgrade into Tanglefoot Curve with a 30 car freight train bound for Chama and ultimately the oilfields around Farmington, NM. While the n... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western #489, a 1925 Baldwin 2-8-2 drifts past Perry's Pond with 20 cars of a freight train. The massive 30 car freight had to be split in two sections at Cumbres Pass for the ... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western #489, a 1925 Baldwin 2-8-2 steams downgrade through Tanglefoot Curve with a long train bound for Alamosa. This was a two day Friends of the C&TS charter that saw a larg... (more)

Westbound passenger train for Chama snakes through Windy Point on a beautiful fall afternoon.

Time-travelers meet at The Pass. Passing through the yard at Cumbres Pass, the time-travelers aboard the Cumbres & Toltec's Train 216 experience one of the many flash-backs they'll have thi... (more)

C&TS 484 pulls out of Cumbres on a very cold summer afternoon.. cold enough for snow to fall at the depot.

Steamscape: Tanglefoot Curve. A Denver & Rio Grande Western freight runs around the Tanglefoot Curve and it runs the last mile of its trek to Cumbres Pass. The road engine this days is DRG... (more)

Double-header westbound at Tanglefoot. A classic, early 1900s double-header graces the complex curves of the Cumbres Loop, known more popularly as "Tanglefoot Curve." This train is westbo... (more)

Pinning on the power. A D&RGW K-27 Locomotive couples up to a freight consist in the yard at Cumbres Pass, in preparation for the trip down the 4% grade to Chama, NM and beyond. On the si... (more)

A grand old Goose spreads her wings. After decades running in circles at her home in the Colorado Railroad Museum, RGS Motor #7, one of the Rio Grande Southern's fabled Galloping Geese, get... (more)

Setting off for Alamosa. With a train of boxcars and gondolas that was assembled in the yard at the 10,000 ft high Cumbres Pass Yard, Work Extra 315 departs eastbound for Alamosa, seen here... (more)

Servicing in the Cumbres Yard. After a pretty arduous climb up the 4% grade out of Chama on wet rails, we see the Durango Railroad Historical Society (DRHS) crew servicing their locomotive ... (more)

It's raining in the high country as C&TS 484 works its way between Los Pinos and Cumbres.

C&TS 484 passes the recently-restored section house at the summit of Cumbres Pass.

C&TS 484 pauses at the summit of Cumbres Pass before heading towards Antonito with the August 2016 Engineer/Fireman school train.