Heritage route
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Antonito → Chama · United States
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 103 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 16 km/h
- Top speed
- 24 km/h
- Operator
- Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
- Train
- D&RGW K-36 steam 2-8-2
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1880
- Highest point
- 3,053 m
- Riders per year
- ≈ 45k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
America’s highest steam railroad, 1880 Rio Grande narrow gauge. K-36 Mikados storm 3,054 m Cumbres Pass and teeter along the Toltec Gorge rim.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3814840 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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