Steam & Excursion > Climbing Up Through the Aspens

The ballast sure looks a bit thin!
SR

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Love the last shot without the "cattle" cars in the picture.

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This year alone the C&TS is spending $1 million dollars on tie replacement and ballast. I believe this is the 4th or 5th year of a multiyear MOW project.

For several years now the C&TS has had very nice track.

I like all those pictures.

C&TS track has been very good for years and continues getting better.

Nice pictures.

This last Fireman/Engineer school train, when it returned to Chama on Wednesday had 2 flat car loads of ties that were dropped on along the line. Also if you look in on the CDoT cam at Cumbres you car see ballast piles staged in the parking lot for use on the line.

Sharon Evans
Glen Allen, VA

I have “so called friends” who tease me about my fascination with narrow gauge tea-kettles.
Bah!
To me these photos nicely portray just how big these “little” locomotives really are- every bit as intimidating as anything on the broader gauge.
SR

BoilingMan Wrote:
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> I have “so called friends” who tease me about
> my fascination with narrow gauge tea-kettles.
> Bah!
> To me these photos nicely portray just how big
> these “little” locomotives really are- every
> bit as intimidating as anything on the broader
> gauge.
> SR

There were a lot of standard gauge shortlines whose largest locomotives were smaller than D&RGW narrow gauge power.