Double Heading Steam
When one locomotive couldn't handle the job, two joined forces to increase speed or conquer steep grades with heavy loads. Witness spectacular plumes of smoke as double-headed engines roar at maximum effort!
Silverton in Winter/Rotaries on Cumbres: All snow action!
Silverton in Winter/Rotaries on Cumbres: All snow action!
In the middle 10 minutes unique narrow gauge snow fighting equipment is doubled with 480 class engines to handle the prodigious snow on Cumbres Pass.
After years of silence the walls of the mighty canyons echo once again to the strident whistles of the narrow gauge in wintertime! Two titles in one: 460 Silverton in Winter and OY Rotaries on Cumbres
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460 Silverton in Winter
A fairy tale come true as the mighty 480 class engines tackle a mantle of dazzling white in a living memory of an age that ended with our grandfathers. 481 digs in for a run over the high line and up the Animas Canyon to Teft Spur.
OY Rotaries on Cumbres
In the heyday of the Cumbres line, the Rio Grande kept two rotaries ready on each side of the pass: OM the first narrow gauge rotary ever built in Chama, and OY, the last, in Antonito. They ordered the world’s only narrow gauge spreader, OU, to shuttle back and forth over the pass beating back the walls of snow. In this DVD you will see all three of these unique pieces of equipment. See the only surviving narrow gauge snow fighting tools anywhere, in letter-perfect condition as they tackle the drifts from the Chama side of the pass. Only from Sunday River.