After cresting the Summit at Cumbres, the C&TS #489 drops downgrade and heads into the first horseshoe at Tanglefoot Curve on the East side of the Pass.

Cumbres & Toltec #487 charges out of Chama leading an Engineer training special.

The daily Eastbound C&TS Passenger train with double heading Steam engines has finished climbing the grade out of Chama and is just past Windy Point as it approaches the Summit of Cumbres Pass.

C&TS 487 heads up the 4% grade with a freight special.

Overcoming gravity on one, if not the steepest railroad in the country, Rio Grande Southern 455 and Cumbres and Toltec 487 climb out of The Chama River Valley (which extends into the backdrop) to... (more)

Rio Grande Consolidation #315 waits in Osier while RGS #455 (normally C&TS #463) takes water. This work extra is a recreation of a typical Rio Grande Southern operation.

Rio Grande Southern #455 (actually #463) crosses Los Pinos Trestle with a work extra on the way to Cumbres Pass. This is a recreation of a typical Rio Grande Southern consist, with the locomotive ... (more)

A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad train pauses briefly next to the siding at Big Horn, New Mexico, in August 1979. Bringing up the rear of the train is caboose No. 05635. This car was a former Ri... (more)

An eastbound Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad passenger train is about to depart Chama, New Mexico, powered with double-headed 2-8-2 K-36 Mikados Nos. 488 and 487. At this point in history on the ... (more)

Crew Shot

While summer suddenly disappeared this week in the American Southwest (note, not a good idea to camp with my current sleeping bags), 488 and its train lazily make their way down Cumbres Pass.

Cumbres and Toltec 489 by the water tower in Chama New Mexico

Cumbres and Toltec 487 going through the Fog and rain.

On a cool beautiful mountain morning 488 leads the first train up Cumbres Pass

K-36 #489 glistens in the October sun.