Date: 10 Oct 2007
Size: 13 items
 
 
 
 
A view of Cumbres around 1936/1937, looking west.  Note the old water tank is still in place at this point.  Newell Martin photograph.
Date: 10 Oct 2007
Owner: Nathan Holmes Collection
 
 
D&RG station at Cumbres, CO, during the winter of 1918 (Photographer unknown)
Date: 09 Sep 2009
Owner: Nathan Holmes Collection
 
 
A D&RG rotary clears the snow heading east at Cumbres, CO.  Date and photographer unknown, but suspected to be 1918.
Date: 09 Sep 2009
Owner: Nathan Holmes Collection
 
 
 
The daily eastbound train, stretched over the summit on 20-Oct-2002.  Yes, the crest in the grade is really that pronounced, and yes, that's the high point between the second and third cars.
Date: 10 Oct 2002
Owner: ND Holmes
 
 
The Cumbres section house.  The solar panels on the roof power the railroad's radio repeater that's located here.
Date: 05 May 2004
Owner: ND Holmes
 
 
The restored Cumbres section house, along with the water standpipe on the left.  Taken 29-May-2004.
Date: 05 May 2004
Owner: ND Holmes
 
 
 
A train enters Cumbres from the west side.  Windy Point is located just on the other side of that ridge.
Date: 05 May 2004
Owner: ND Holmes
 
 
An eastbound train rounds Windy Point, as seen from far below, on 1-Oct-2005
Date: 10 Oct 2005
Owner: ND Holmes
 
 
Here's 484 backing down the wye into the surviving part of the snowshed.  Taken in late 2005.
Date: 10 Oct 2005
Owner: ND Holmes
 
 
 
484 crosses the small trestle just west of Cumbres, on the way to Windy Point.
Date: 10 Oct 2005
Owner: ND Holmes
 
 
Another look at the trestle.  This carried the railway over the original road between Antonito and Chama.
Date: 10 Oct 2005
Owner: ND Holmes
 
 
487 passes the station house going west on 20-Oct-2007 with a fall photo freight in tow.
Date: 11 Nov 2007
Owner: ND Holmes
 
 
 
 
  
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