Cumbres and Toltec: 2017

Opening Day

Pomp and Circumstance over, the first train of the 2017 season on the Cumbres and Toltec positions on the platform for boarding as Mt Blanca looms in the distance.

Highball Antonito

Leaving Antonito

Blanca Rising

Mt Blanca, Colorado's fourth highest peak rises in the distance.

Runnin' Flat Out

Hangman's Trestle

Job Briefing

Stopped at Big Horn, the crew converses on a plan of attack on a problem currently vexing their train.

Job Briefing

Stopped at Big Horn, the crew converses on a plan of attack on a problem currently vexing their train.

Job Briefing

Stopped at Big Horn, the crew converses on a plan of attack on a problem currently vexing their train.

Switch-Points-West

Sublette

Dizzying Heights

Cascade Trestle

Dizzying Heights

Cascade Trestle

Dizzying Heights

Cascade Trestle

Rio de Los Pinos

Rio de Los Pinos

Starry Night: Chama

Created in StarStax, this composite image of Chama's famed Coal Tipple basks in the sodium lights underneath the stars.

Steam Up Sojurn

As part of the daily ritual of bringing a steam locomotive to life is the cleaning of the ash pan. Here we see the 455 making its way from the engine house to the ash pit where its fire will be cleaned.

Clean Pan

As part of the daily ritual of bringing a steam locomotive to life is the cleaning of the ash pan. Here, one of the hostlers is seen cleaning up the ash pan of 455

Pan Cleaner

As part of the daily ritual of bringing a steam locomotive to life is the cleaning of the ash pan. Here, one of the hostlers is seen cleaning up the ash pan of 455

Watering Ritual.

As part of the daily ritual of bringing a steam locomotive to life is the filling of the water tank.