Among the Cumbres and Toltec locomotives

I was very surprised to find this envelope of Cumbres and Toltec locomotive photos from the September 1996 trip - I had completely forgotten about them! I think what happened was that after they were printed they were almost immediately boxed-up in preparation for moving house and then forgotten. Yeah, that box has sat in the house, unopened, for nearly 23 years! Until now.

Of the pair of locos shown above and below, it looks like No.488 is in front, and No. 489 is behind.

These beasts don't run without coal.

Flat cars are my favourite type of freight car. Come to think of it, I don't recall any on the EVRR - I need to check on that.

I could have used one of those bad boys on my driveway today :-)

Cumbres and Toltec engine house panorama

We used to shoot a lot of pictures with a Kodak panorama camera. Basically, you loaded it with 35mm film and each picture was double the width of a normal shot. It wasn't a very sophisticated camera - it was basically just a point-and-shoot - but when the lighting conditions were right, it could take a good picture. Not so much with these two, but further rummaging turned them up, and they give a bit of an idea of what sort of rolling stock was around the engine house.

Some Cumbres and Toltec lineside structures

I also took photos of a few structures along the Cumbres and Toltec line. Like the train photos, I don't have any information other than I shot them in September 1996.

[6 Jan '19 update: I found a photo of what looks a like a brick engine house loose in the bottom of a box of photos so I added it to the collection.]

Cumbres and Toltec highway crossing

I was rummaging through some boxes and discovered a set of photos I shot back in September 1996 in Colorado (maybe it was New Mexico?) of a meet-up with a Cumbres and Toltec train. Believe it or not it was completely by coincidence.

Back then my train interests were quite dormant and I was generally blase about trains and such things, but I guess you can take the boy outta the trains, but you can't take the trains outta the man, so I grabbed my old SLR when we were lucky enough to get stopped by this thing.

I see some photos of buildings in the envelope with these ones. I'll scan those next. Stay tuned!

[6 Jan '19 update: I found 2 more photos of passenger cars crossing the highway loose in the bottom of a box so I added them to the sequence.]