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2021 on the Cumbres and Toltec

The summer of 2021 found us headed to Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado many a time, and now, here’s the video that we shot of the famed Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad that year. For the uninitiated, the Cumbres and Toltec is one of the last operating remnants of the famed and far flung Denver and Rio Grande Western narrow gauge network. This railway once was part of a network that stretched from Denver as far south as Santa Fe, New Mexico, and west as far Salt Lake City. The railroad allows for a peak back into the wild west to see what towns like Montrose, Gunnison, Salida, and even Durango were once like before the railroads into town were abandoned. The railroad is locked in a consistent battle with the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge in USA Today’s ‘Top 10 Best Scenic Train Rides’ with the D&S taking this years crown (it swaps between the two nearly every year). Cumbres runs between Chama New Mexico (next to Pagosa Springs and it’s famous hot springs resort) and Antonito Colorado (north of Taos NM, but south of Alamosa CO) crossing the border of the two states 11 times as it creates a serpentine route between the two. While none of this video features any of the guest locomotives of the ‘Victorian Iron Horse Roundup’, an event which featured many pre-1900 steam locomotives on the line, a few shots are from those days. Along the line we’ll see the two classes of ex- Denver and Rio Grande Western steam locomotives that ply the rails today here, the 1903 built K-27, No. 463, and the 1925 built K-36 class (484, 487, and 489), all constructed by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. On this video we’ll take you trackside along (and above) the longest and highest narrow gauge railroad in the United States as we are in the Chama Yard, the crossing of the Rio Chama, Lobato Trestle, Hamilton’s Point, Coxo, Windy Point, Cumbres, Los Pinos, Osier, Toltec Gorge, Big Horn, and Antonito. Most of the footage rolls between the coal burning 463, 484, and 487, but the future of the railroad, oil burning No. 489 shows up at the end of the video with it’s clean stack and a beautiful hooter whistle. A little darker than its brethren over at the Durango and Silverton, the 489 provides a beautiful look with no stack cap and dark graphite smokebox. Music: ‘Grand Vista’ by Jason Shaw: [a href="https://audionautix.com/"]Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com[/a]