Robin and I arrived at the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in Antonito and started looking around.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad 2-8-2 K37 493, built by Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in 1928 from standard gauge 2-8-0 1105, was on a display train at the main entrance to the parking lot.
Denver and Rio Grande Western stock car 5747 built by American Car and Foundry in 1904.
Denver and Rio Grande Western refrigerator car 166 built by the railroad in 1926.
Denver and Rio Grande Western box car 3524 built by American Car and Foundry in 1904.
Denver and Rio Grande Western stock cars.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad passenger car 211 built by American Car and Foundry in 1904 as box car 3469.
Denver and Rio Grande Western flat car 6509 built by American Car and Foundry and the railroad in 1940 from a standard-gauge gondola.
Denver and Rio Grande Western side dump gondola, number unknown.
Denver and Rio Grande Western water tower and hand car shed. The current tank was moved from La Jara, Colorado to Antonito in 1973 when the original Antonito tank was moved to Lava, New Mexico.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad passenger cars 500 "Alamosa", built by the railroad in 1982 from Denver and Rio Grande Western flat car 652 and 503 "Del Norte" built by the railroad in 1982 from Denver and Rio Grande Western flat car 6516.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad passenger cars 522 "Sublette" built by the railroad in 1993 from Denver and Rio Grande Western flat car AX4606 and 504 "San Luis" built by the railroad in 1982 from Denver and Rio Grande Western flat car 6540.
Denver and Rio Grande Western hopper car.
Denver and Rio Grande Western flanger OJ built by the railroad in 1885 as 8.
Denver and Rio Grande Western flat car number unknown.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad 47 ton switcher 19 nee Oahu Railway and Land Company 19 built by General Electric in 1943.
Denver and Rio Grande Western flat car number unknown.
DLCW flat car number unknown.
Denver and Rio Grande Western caboose 05635 built by the railroad from stock car 5635.
Three new Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad tank cars.
Union Tank Car 11036 built by the company in 1936 as 58424.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad new flat car.
Denver and Rio Grande Western box car 3244 built by American Car and Foundry in 1904; currently Cumbres and Toltec Scenic concession car 3244.
Denver and Rio Grande Western flat car 6627 built by the railroad in 1956 from a standard-gauge box car.
Denver and Rio Grande Western stock car 5995 built by American Car and Foundry in 1923.
Denver and Rio Grande Western flat car 6529 built by American Car and Foundry and the railroad in 1940 from a standard-gauge gondola.
Denver and Rio Grande Western side dump gondola 756 built by American Car and Foundry in 1904.
Denver and Rio Grande Western gondola 727 built by American Car and Foundry in 1904.
Denver and Rio Grande Western stock car.
Denver and Rio Grande Western pile driver OB built by the railroad in 1891 as 0363.
Denver and Rio Grande Western baggage car 163 built by the railroad in 1883 as 15.
Rio Grande sleeper number unknown.
Denver and Rio Grande Western railway post office car 053 built by the railroad in 1885 and converted to a maintenance-of-way car.
Denver and Rio Grande Western box car, number unknown.
Denver and Rio Grande Western passenger car 256 built by Billmeyer & Small in 1876 as 12 "La Veta".
Denver and Rio Grande Western passenger car, number unknown.
Denver and Rio Grande Western box car, number unknown.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad 2-6-2 K37 494 built by the railroad in 1928 from standard gauge 2-8-0 1120.
Denver and Rio Grande Western outside braced box car 68301.
Denver and Rio Grande Western outside braced box car 67971.
Denver and Rio Grande Western idler flat car 010793 built by the railroad.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 4-6-0 168 built by Baldwin in 1883.
The current Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad station, built in 1977, in Antonito. We headed into downtown Antonito.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Antonito station built in the 1880's. Robin and I headed north to La Jara.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western La Jara station built in 1911. We then headed to Alamosa.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Alamosa station built in 1908.
Minnesota Zephyr Dinner Train F7A 788, ex. Chicago and North Western 410, nee Chicago and North Western 4082A built by Electro-Motive Division in 1949.
Minnesota Zephyr Dinner Train F7A 787, ex. Cadillac and Lake City 71, exx. Coe Rail 716, exxx. BN 716, exxx. Burlington Northern 9756, nee SP&S 804 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1953.
Canadian National F7B 6622, ex. VIA 6622, nee Canadian National 6622 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1957.
Carolina Southern F7A 9163, nee Canadian National 9116 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1952. From here we drove to Cole Park.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 4-6-0 169 built by Baldwin in 1883. In 1939, the locomotive was refurbished at the Denver & Rio Grande Western's Burnham Shops in Denver, to appear at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. In 1941, the railroad donated it to the City of Alamosa and it has been on display in downtown Cole Park ever since. It is one of the oldest surviving locomotives of the Rio Grande Railroad. Also on display is business car B-1, built by Jackson and Sharpe in 1880 as 33 "Bovincia" and re-built into a business car in 1885.
From here we drove to the San Luis Central shops.
San Luis Central SW9 70, ex. Coors Brewing C997, nee Cincinnati Union Terminal 36 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1952, at Sugar Creek Jct shops. From here we headed to Monte Vista.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Monte Vista station. From here we headed to Del Norte.
Tank cars in storage.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Del Norte station. From here we headed west to South Fork.
Stored freight cars. We arrived at South Fork and found the Denver Rio Grande Railroad.
Southern Pacific B30-7 7863 built by General Electric in 1979.
Denver and Rio Grande Western South Fork station.
United States Air Force 44 ton switcher 1244 built by General Electric in 1953.
Port of Corpus Christi 25 ton switcher 1 built by General Electric.
Detroit and Mackinac observation car 99 orginally Lake Superior and Ishpeming 21 "Munising", built by Pullman in 1901
Passenger car number and history unknown.
Passenger equipment not being used in 2016.
Denver and Rio Grande Western box car 3088 built by American Car and Foundry in 1904.
Denver and Rio Grande Western stock car. From here we stopped at the railroad display in South Fork.
The water tower in South Fork is behind a string of stored coal cars.
Seaboard Coast Line observation car PPCX 6401 ex. SCL 775003, exx. Seaboard Airlines instruction car rebuilt from a coach.
White Satin Brighton 44 ton switcher 1, ex. Amalgamated Sugar 1, exx. Amalgamated Sugar 4, exxx. Great Western 40, nee Rio Grande 40 built by General Electric in 1942.
Santa Fe business car 36 built by Pullman in 1924.
The water tower in South Fork built in 1881. From here we drove to Salida. Here there is another steam engine.
Koppers Company 24 inch 0-4-0T 40 built by H.K. Porter in 1926. It worked for the Koppers Company creosote plant, which operated in Smeltertown near Salida from 1926 until 1953. The Koppers plant (home-based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) treated raw wood railroad ties with creosote as a preservative. The engine was moved to the park in 1953 and began attracting tourists the same year the museum opened in a small room at the nearby Hot Springs Pool. It is known as the Little Dinky.
Semaphore signal at this railroad display. Robin and I checked into the Classic America Inn and had an excellent meal at the Quincy Restaurant in Salida before we returned to our room for the night.
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