Crew change at Field.

After the Blizzard of 78 the Conrail Cairo line sat covered in snow for days...Eventually Avon decided to send a snowplow out to open the lightly used line..Coming around the cure at Woodyard betw... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Rotary snowplow OY clears the narrow gauge right-of-way eastbound upgrade toward Cumbres Pass just above Dalton, New Mexico, on February 29, 2020. Engineer Max Casias, located in ... (more)

Breakout! After several minutes of hard plowing, Rotary OY and her train finally break through the 3 foot snow pack and onto Colorado Highway 17, with Pilot Marvin Casias leading the charge... (more)

Plowing the deep stuff at Coxo. As the Cumbres & Toltec's Rotary Outfit approaches the Highway 17 crossing at Coxo, the game begins to change. For most of the run from Chama to this locat... (more)

Eastbound Canadian in winter landscape.

Steamscape: Perry's Pond. There are no pretty reflections, just shadows this day, as the Cumbres & Toltec Rotary Outfit claws its way through the last quarter mile toward the Highway 17 Cro... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec’s Rotary OY outfit train steams through a curve above Dalton, New Mexico, on the afternoon of February 29, 2020. Rio Grande caboose No. 0306 carries the markers on the eastbound... (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)

The heavy snow is making conditions rough for trains coming out of the Denver Yard, and a loaded coal waits while yard crews struggle to clear the switches of ice.

UP 1510 runs a small freight in heavy snow past the ConAgra SW1200 that works the Commerce City Grain yard. 1510 has quite a history, having started life in 1969 as a GP40 with the B&O Railroad, ... (more)

At the summit of Cumbres Pass, Colorado, there’s quite a bit of white stuff to chew on as Cumbres & Toltec Rotary OY makes a run at the build-up of icy snow at the Colorado Highway 17 grade cros... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec’s Rotary snowplow OY and outfit train nears Windy Point, Colorado, as it climbs the four percent grade to Cumbres Pass on March 1, 2020.

Steamscape: Orgasm Curve. With the snow-pack slowly deepening, the Cumbres & Toltec Rotary Outfit winds its way through the complex S-curve at Milepost 336.2 that has, in the past half cent... (more)

After getting a fill of water from the Chama Fire Department at the Highway 17 grade crossing at Coxo, Colorado, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY plow outfit heads upgrade toward the loc... (more)