Along the Los Pinos River
Running the contours of the hills, less than 100 ft. above the Los Pinos River, a Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge freight heads west toward Cumbres Pass on a late October afternoon. With K-36 Locomotive #487 leading and #488 helping at mid-train, this freight is beginning the nearly 5 mile, north/south "detour" that the line makes within the Los Pinos Valley, to keep the grade manageable.
This image was captured during a 5-day photo shoot on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in October of 2012 and was quite literally the only scene on the entire trip in which we did not have direct sunlight.
Along the Los Pinos River
Running the contours of the hills, less than 100 ft. above the Los Pinos River, a Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge freight heads west toward Cumbres Pass on a late October afternoon. With K-36 Locomotive #487 leading and #488 helping at mid-train, this freight is beginning the nearly 5 mile, north/south "detour" that the line makes within the Los Pinos Valley, to keep the grade manageable.
This image was captured during a 5-day photo shoot on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in October of 2012 and was quite literally the only scene on the entire trip in which we did not have direct sunlight.