(Abridged descriptions) With a full head of steam and passengers aboard, engines 489 and 484 depart Chama with the eastbound train to Antonito.
The double-header is already climbing the 4 percent grade as it enters The Narrows.
Due to weight restrictions, helper engine 484 is cut off and crosses the Lobato Trestle alone.
The whistle blows for the grade crossing at Highway 17 as the double-header charges through.
The train continues climbing the 4percent grade west of Cresco.
The train has stopped near Cresco. The engines struggle to get the train rolling again.
The double-header passes Windy Point where the tracks run along the edge of a cliff just west of Cumbres.
The train reaches the summit at Cumbres where it stops for water and to cut off the helper.
East of Tanglefoot the train drifts by on its downgrade journey eastward to Antonito, CO.
Back at Cumbres the helper engine 484 pulls up to the water pipe for service.
Engine 484 maneuvers around the wye at Cumbres with a close-up perspective of the barking exhaust from the smokebox.
Inside the cab is a wash of hiss and rattle.
Engine 484 continues eastbound and whistles as it crosses Highway 17 at Cumbres.
Under thundering skies and a brief rain, engine 488 from Antonito, pulls its train westbound around the loop at Tanglefoot .
A short time later, engine 484 follows 488 s train westbound thru Tanglefoot.
Back in the yard at Chama, Engine 484 heads for the wye after pulling the caboose off the train that just arrived from Antonito.
Blowing for the small private crossing at grade, another double-header with engine 484 on the point works through Cresco.
We re on board the platform of caboose 0306 coupled right behind engine 484 and 488 as the two highball up the grade around Lobo Lodge.
Still on board the platform of caboose 0306, the engines are working fast and hard climbing the curve near Coxo.
Preparing for the day s journey, engine 488 performs a blow-down to remove debris from the boiler with a roaring blast then returns from the east end of the Chama yard.
A double-header led by engine 488 with 489 on the point as a helper, blows for the crossing at Highway 17 east of Dalton and works up the 4 percent grade with the train.
489 and 488 work together as they challenge the final part of the grade to Cumbres at Windy Point.
Near Los Pinos engine 484 returns westbound with the train from Antonito.
The train continues working up the gentle grade east of the Tanglefoot curve.
Engine 484 pulls its train out of the loop at Tanglefoot and whistles for the crossing at Highway 17.
Now drifting down the 4 percent grade on the other side of Cumbres, the train glides thru The Narrows as it returns to Chama.
At Chama, the engine is cut from the train and heads to the west end of the yard to be turned at the wye.
Whistling in the distance for the crossing at Highway 17, engines 497; a K37 class, and 488; a K36 pull a train up the grade east of Dalton.
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