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Cumbres & Toltec by Sam Furukawa Photographic tribute to America’s most spectac
Cumbres & Toltec by Sam Furukawa A Photographic tribute to Americas most spectacular scenic railway.
175 pages
Hard Cover w/Dust Jacket
Copyright 2007 March, 1st Printing
Table of Contents
Introduction 10
Coal Smoke over Chama Yard12
A Railroad with Friends30
The Brutal Climb to the Pass32
Brief Pause at Cumbres56
Eastbound toward Antonito64
Locomotives: Care and Feeding 82
Men at Work: C&TS Railroaders 100
Westbound to Osier112
An Easier Climb to Cumbres132
Down the Valley to Chama148
Special Trains and Seasons164
Acknowledgements172
Index175
ALMOST HIDDEN from public view in a high and remote corner of the Rocky mountains is the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. This 64-mile line crosses and re-crosses the border between southwestern Colorado and northern New Mexico, passing through some of the most spectacular mountain scenery anywhere in the world.
If that weren't distinction enough, trains on the C&TS are powered by 19th- and 20th-century technology: Steam locomotives. Those locomotives, the trains they pull, and the scenery they run through are the subjects of the photographs in this book.
The history of the line, originally built by the Denver & Rio Grande in 1880, has been covered in dozens of books. Instead of more history, this volume seeks to show what the C&TS looks like today. While you'll find plenty of photos of locomotives and trains, you'll also find pictures made to evoke the vastness of the scenery that surrounds them.
If you are among the hundreds of thousands of visitors that have ridden Cumbres & Toltec trains, the photos in this book are what your experience looked like from trackside. Some of the pictures are from well beyond track-side, including a series of remarkable photos shot from a jet helicopter at the height of the fall foliage season in the San Juan mountains.
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