The historic images previewed on these sites consist of a collection by the above photographers, which has been assembled into a Screen Saver by Roger Hogan of The Hotel & Shops in Chama, NM. Use of the photos, and all labor involved, is being donated by these five "Fossil Foamites" (Curmudgeons and Curmudgeons-in-Training) so that the Screen Saver can be sold as a fundraiser for the restoration of D&RGW / C&TS Locomotive Number 483.
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NOTE: The images displayed above and described below were first set up for viewing by members of the project team for selection and sequencing purposes, and are available to potential purchasers of the Screen Saver for evaluation purposes ONLY. They may NOT be copied by any means whatsoever. They are based on the final versions of the images that were used to produce the screen saver, but reduced to 400x300 pixels (25% of final size), and saved as .jpeg files using a medium compression factor of 10 (5 for B&W), in order to minimize the time needed to download them to this preview website. The images on the screen saver itself are 1600x1200 pixels in size, and saved as uncompressed .jpg files of about 5 MB each in order to preserve the sharpness and details of the original photographs.
| Photo Credits: | ||||
| Nmbr | Description | Taken By | When Taken | |
| 46 | K-28's at Bridge over Conejos River | ER | April 23, 1968 | |
| 47 | K-28's on Curve near La Jara | ER | May 28, 1968 | |
| 48 | K-28's south of Alamosa | JW | May 28, 1968 | |
| 49 | K-28's at Antonito Tank | JW | May 28, 1968 | |
| 50 | K-28's at Los Pinos Tank | JW | May 28, 1968 | |
| 51 | Alamosa - The Final Sunrise | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 52 | Alamosa - water plug | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 53 | Alamosa - coal loader | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 54 | Alamosa - passing the depot | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 55 | Alamosa - outbound doubleheader | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 56 | Antonito - the speedway | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 57 | Milepost 302 - around the curve | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 58 | Milepost 304 - blowing out the mud | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 59 | Sublette at noon - water plug | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 60 | Leaving Sublette - slippery footing | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 61 | Cumbres - arriving at the Summit | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 62 | Cumbres - uncoupling the helper | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 63 | Cumbres - helper #483 departs | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 64 | #484 & train at Lobo Lodge Crossing | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 65 | #484 & train at Lobato Trestle | RS | Aug. 28, 1968 | |
| 66 | Last Revenue Freight, engine below Lobato | RC | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 67 | Last Revenue Freight, helper below Lobato | RC | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 68 | Last Revenue Freight, below Cresco siding | RC | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 69 | Last Revenue Freight, #498 below tanglefoot | RS | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 70 | Last Revenue Freight, east of tanglefoot | RS | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 71 | Last Freight entering Los Pinos Valley | RS | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 72 | "I Saw the Whole Thing" in Los Pinos Valley | RS | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 73 | THE LAST FREIGHT, east of Lava Tank | RS | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 74 | Last Freight approaching Antonito | RS | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 75 | Picking up orders for the last time | RS | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 76 | Smokin' up the town | RS | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 77 | The Last Freight - End of the Line | RS | Aug. 29, 1968 | |
| 78 | Natl. Parks Special at Cumbres Summit | ER | Nov. 24, 1968 | |
| 79 | Natl. Parks Special at depot in Antonito | ER | Nov. 24, 1968 | |
| 80 | Last Train: equipment move near Big Horn | AC* | Dec. 5, 1968 | |
| 81 | Last Train: equipment move near Sublette | AC* | Dec. 5, 1968 | |
| 82 | Last Train: equipment move in Los Pinos Valley | AC* | Dec. 5, 1968 | |
| 83 | Chama, last day of D&RGW operations | ER | Dec. 6, 1968 | |
| * Gildersleeve Collection | ||||
For a detailed history of D&RGW freight operations over Cumbres Pass in the mid-1960's - and approximately 200 excellent B&W photos - see "Rio Grande Narrow Gauge - The Final Years, Alamosa to Chama" by Joseph P. Hereford, Jr. and Ernest W. Robart. For a wide selection of outstanding color photographs - including several by John West - covering operations on the D&RGW, the Cumbres & Toltec, and the Durango & Silverton narrow gauge railroads, see "NARROW GAUGE ... then and now" by Tom Gildersleeve and Nils Huxtable. A great many more historic photos of the D&RGW narrow gauge are available for viewing on John West's website.