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Cumbres And Toltec Shops Up-Dates
2007

June week-1

 

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I celebrated my birthday by watching my friend Ernestine sing over the weekend..

Sing it Ernestine!!!

How about a few views of the train climbing up to Osier. Here we have just made the curve at Milepost 296 and am beginning the climb up the middle track of the Whiplash.

Great reflection in the side of the Tender!

Rolling downhill above Lava, tank!

What a great view..

I love the view we have here, such a pretty place to run a train.

Lava Tank, one of the most remote tanks on the line, but what a view!

What is looks like to pass the tank from the Firemans seat!!

Ain't she a beauty, my friend sang at the "Summerfest on the Rio" art festival in Alamosa...

Locomotive 488 and I are going to cross the railroad today!!!

Locomotive 488 is looking great in her new paint.

We are taking two passenger cars and three flat cars to Antonito.

Locomotive 488 at Cresco water tank.

Hope you like the shots...

We stopped to take on a little water and to double check 488 to make sure she was running okay!

A road crossing board, a water tank and locomotive 488.

Looking great at Cresco..

Locomotive 488 is running great and we have made the summit at Cumbres.

Locomotive 488 at Osier, Colorado.

Boy, she looks great!!

Ernestine is such a amazing singer, she always enchants the crowd no matter where she goes.

SL&RG 1744.....

San Luis & Rio Grande has turned on the wye in Antonito and will now head for Alamosa...

Before she does, the Antonito Fire department will pump another load of water into the tender for the round trip to Alamosa.

Soon the tender will have enough water for the return trip.

Here is 1744 at the 10th street crossing in Antonito, to the left is my house and in the background is Cano's Castle.. a local icon!!!

Here is 1744 with its test train of cars.

The sun is setting and 1744 will get home to Alamosa in the dark.

San Luis & Rio Grande 1744..

San Luis & Rio Grande 1744 in Antonito at 10th street.

And away 1744 goes...

Ernestine Romero...

A group of Standard gauge motor cars arrives in Antonito on the SL&RG Railroad.

The motorcars sit on the SL&RG track with the Cumbres & Toltec train parked in the rear.

Its amazing the new photo opportunities that have happened in Antonito in just the last year..

Standard gauge motorcars next to a narrow gauge passenger train..

This motorcar is the farthest anything has ever been on these rails.

Great shot.. couldn't have asked for better light!!!

Motorcars and a passenger train.

I love these motorcars...

They are shining examples of preserved railroading.

Love all the different colors.

Later this evening the motorcars will return to Alamosa.

Hey about some action from Alamosa... SL&RG 1744 with the La Veta Passenger train meets the SL&RG 8577 with the Antonito Passenger Train... Earl is on the 1744 and Dennis is on the 8577!!!

SL&RG 1744 comes across State Street in Alamosa!!!  More from Alamosa coming soon!!

 

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