Under Steam The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad rolls across generations, through the pandemic and on to the future
STO RY + P H OTO S BY JULIE ANN GRIMM e d i t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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anta Feans can relate to the story of engine No. 168—especially if they pick up her tale in 1938 when she stopped at a city park in Colorado Springs, not unlike our “train park” near the Salvador Perez pool. Only instead of sitting idle forever, No. 168 was plucked up, placed on a truck, transported to the shop and overhauled after three-quarters of a century out of service. With clouds of dark coal smoke and bursts of white steam rising into the sky, she pulled a set of historic passenger cars up a Colorado mountainside last month, commemorating 51 years of public ownership of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic
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JUNE 9-15, 2021
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