Chama Train Station


Platform


Boarding


Old 484


The engineer compartment


Jesus, the coal tender


Chugging up the hill


With lots of smoke and soot



Beautiful valleys and hills

 


Sonny, the engineer, topping up the water


100 year old water tower still in use


Crossing a trestle


View of the highway from Chama to Alamosa


Lunch stop in Osier, Colorado


Leaving Osier


On the way home


Crossing more trestles


Another view of the highway


Cleaning the boiler by blowing steam

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Chugging up the hill, sights and sounds.

Creeping along over the highway, aerial views.

Warning whistle, used at all road crossings.

Cleaning out the boiler by blowing steam.