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The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, often abbreviated as the C&TSRR, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 64 miles (103 km) of track between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico, in the United States.
This is a route-map template for the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, a United States heritage railroad.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
For scenic gravity railroads, an early terminology, see roller coasters A scenic railroad or scenic railway is a train service operating leisure tours of sights such as mountain scenery and foliage tours.
A Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad train east of Chama, New Mexico. This is a list of heritage railroads in the United States; there are currently no such railroads in two U.S. states, Mississippi and North Dakota. Visitors aboard the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway in Blue Ridge, Georgia
A subsidiary heritage railroad, the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad, operated passenger excursion trains between Alamosa and La Veta during the summer months from 2006 to 2019. They also offered trips from Alamosa to Antonito, where passengers could connect with the narrow gauge Cumbres and Toltec. [17]
The D&RGW operated trains over the branch until 1967, then in 1970 the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad took over the abandoned track between Chama, New Mexico, and Antonito, Colorado, to operate tourist trains in the summer months. The Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec maintain the remaining structures in the interests of historic preservation ...
D&RGW Railroad Cumbres Section House, el. 10,015 ft. Cumbres Pass, elevation 10,022 ft (3,055 m), is a mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, United States. The pass is traversed by State Highway 17 and the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad. The highway has a moderate 5.8% approach on the north side and a gentler, 4% approach on ...
The San Juan Express (also known as simply the San Juan) was a narrow gauge train that ran on the 3 feet (0.91 m) Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) route from Durango, Colorado via Chama, New Mexico; Cumbres Pass; and Antonito, Colorado to Alamosa, Colorado. The train ran from February 11, 1937 until January 31, 1951 as train ...