The trains are great but what I find more amazing is the scenery the way it goes from almost desert to beautiful mountains and pines.

This is a must do for any train or mountain scenery enthusiasts!! I prefer the ride in the opposite direction...climbing the 4% grade and not having to listen to the squealing brakes! I hear the fall with the turning aspens is the very best time to go. ...Claude

Cool train video.

Every video from you folks is quality! It's obvious you are living your dream of chasing and riding trains! Thanks for sharing the dream! T4

Thank you very much for taking me on this beautiful ride.I really enjoyed it thank again.

I love that choo!

WOW, this was the most amazing train ride I have ever been on. Thank you for taking us with you.

Another gr8 video Thanks' a lot

What a great day . your video is better than the one from pentex.thank you have a great week

Wow, what an incredible ride and video! One thing you don't want them to say over the loud speaker on the way down to the end: "Hang on folks, we're going to really let it rip this time!" Loved this absolutely.

What wonderful video. We’ll done!

On rock tunnel you understand what they mean by seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

Man, seeing those brakes on fire is both kinda awesome and unsettling. We had a similar situation when we rode the daily passenger train on the 2nd day of the Iron Horse Roundup, except it was a hot journal box fire rather than a brake fire. Came into Antonito smoking up a storm, and it was cool to see the all the staff try to put it out! 😂

Thanks for sharing, it has given me impetus to ride the train and given me insight into more places to photograph the train from. Nicely, done!!!

Great video. Thank you so much for your commentary and effort!!

Very nicely done. Just the right amount of narration and nice musical selections. Thank you. I road this route in 2009, part of my big road trip upon retiring from 26.33 years of public service. Fun to see it is doing well.

44 minutes of beauty 😍😍

Awesome video. Made the trip a while back to the lunch stop. Also did the D&S and the Georgetown Loop. Super steam roads.

I have did something like this back in 2016, when I was visiting the C&TS. I hope to come back to this railroad, along with other railroads in Colorado.

Dale, Did this ride 3 years ago when all the wild fires were going on here in Colorado, Once you get out of town and up into the mountains deep in the back country is when this ride really gets beautiful.

Thank you so much. I wish I was there.

Thank you for taking us along on the ride.

I have seen many videos of this railroad trip, in both directions, none of them compare to this one. Your choice of camera angles, and including the screaming brake sound, the only one that does, and all the other sights and sounds, make this video the best I've seen. Sadly the only thing that can't be included is the smell and feel of the ride. Thanks for creating the best ride to Chama that I've ever seen. ;-)

Thanks! Another one for my bucket list.

We like to watch the train coming into Osier and from other spots along the forest roads.

Wow, what scenery. Wish I was there. Most enjoyable, thanks👍👍👍!!!

WOW! Great video! Like all your videos are great, but this one was really great.

Great ride! Gracias

You guys have taken some neat train rides but this one has got to be one of if not the best ever. Spectacular.

A great trip! Thanks for taking us along.

Fantastic scenery! 👍

A relaxing train ride with great narration. Super!!!

Thank You again Dale and Karyn. Another great film; love it.

What a excellent video. And content.

What a great ride!...

Love watching the weights spin around! Nice video!

Mornin toman! Glad to see your following the show and on the hunt lol

Wow spectacular job Screwing around I wish I was there it's at least 3 years before I can go back out West thank you for taking me on another one of your excellent adventures

Spectacular scenary. Wish I could go in person. Many thanks again.

Really good episode. Great scenery. Best you really enjoyed the ride even with the burnt brake smell.

Awesome episode!!! Love your longer episodes too, always entertaining throughout 👍👍👍🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃👍👍👍

This music @ 6:59 is one of my favorite discoveries on the Toy Man Television channel. The music is called "Americana" and is composed by Emmy nominated composer Richard Band.

Awesome video! Always look forward to your content after church on Sundays! Me and my wife always enjoy watching

Amazing landscape, thanks for sharing

I remember riding in one of those converted box car/coach cars in 1972.They bolted plastic chairs with steel legs to the floor. I’m sure it met all safety rules or maybe not🤓

This was a very special film. I promoted it from my Sunday morning tea time viewing to Sunday night prime time. :D Great sound sound track as usual.... If you tried hard you could probably get a job doing that. :D

Thanks enjoyed watching video 👍👍👍

Beautiful day and ride

The Friends of the C&T ran a Loco #168 excursion with the remodeled coaches and sleeper that I went on in late Sept and we were able to get some aspen leaf color in the higher elevations. The weather was picture perfect. The train only went as far as Osier. The dining hall at Osier suffered a fire and we received lunch in the form of sandwiches, fruit, chips, etc. They set up a canopy with tables roughly across from the water tank, which was quite a feat under the circumstances. I made a short video of some of the run-bys (about 8 min) and it's on my KZfaq channel.

Now this is the longest video I have seen on the Toy Man TV KZfaq Channel. But it is a great video.

Yeah...the brakes sure need oiling 👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️ Just love it we have some similar scenery here in Australia

Wonder how often they have to do a brake job. Great video..thank you.

Amazing train ride with all that beautiful Colorado and New Mexico mountains and canyons to take in. It is hard to find any area better than this. I might be a little bit biased sense I am from and live in Colorado. I can remember the first time I seen the coaling tower in Chama and the top of Cumbres pass nearly 50 years ago. The area hasn't change much over the years and is still as beautiful as it was back then. Thanks for taking us along and sharing. Be safe and see you on Tuesday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

Gotta love the K Class engines

I actually felt like I was riding along with you guys! I really enjoyed the 62-mile trip...well, at least, a portion of it. The scenery is beautiful. I did feel a bit heartbroken because I once, briefly, owned a brass D&RGW HOn3 Mikado 2-8-2 K-36 engine from Overland Models, Inc. back in 1990. But, it was defective and I had to return it. Seeing the real ones in this video brought back memories and a little sadness because I don't have it anymore. 😔 But, I enjoyed the ride as you climbed those steep grades...it was fun!!! 😁 Your shows are always AWESOME!!! Keep on doing 'em!!! And thanks for the ride!!! 🤗

We watched another video that had this same event that you are on with the Victorian trains. On their video, they said that the Eureka had a mechanical problem and they had to be towed backwards. We watched on the video the trains being towed backwards by another steam train. Where you two on that trip? This video of yours is amazing. Love the music you had playing too. I'm keeping this in my favorites folder, to watch again and again. Thank you for sharing this wonderful trip.

Whoever picks your music has excellent taste!

My aunt and uncle were there just last week riding the train. I still have yet to ride the train.

I believe the elevation of Antonito is 7905 feet, Chama is 7870 feet, and Cumbres Pass is 10,015 feet. Most of the grade between Antonito and Cumbres Pass is a fairly steady 1.5%.

Great video! The C&T is one railroad in Colorado that I might be visiting for my 16th birthday!

🗽🗽👍👍

My wife and grandkids rode this 2x.

Great video. Hey that dude filling the tender is Max! He is responsible for a lot of 168’s restoration and he’s also a locomotive engineer and fireman on the railroad. I follow him on instagram haha. Good dude.

And the brakes go...Wheeeeeeeeeeeoooowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

You should ride the redwood valley railroad in Tilden park California

Talk about a Rocky mountain high that it was a beautiful scenic train ride is there any railroad that you haven't ridden on yet I think you might have covered them all but I could be wrong thanks for sharing

spectacular thank you for that, but I wonder what is the cubicle for on the tender ?.

Great video! But, is there a video on your channel where you rode the C&T into the night? I swore there is was but maybe I’m imagining things

Hello ToyMan. Greaat video today. We road the route west to east in 2018 behind locomotive 484 as a birthday present. I noticed you used a sabilized camera for your video and I was wondering if you are allowed to share what that product is. I've got lots of wobbly video from our narrow gauge rides and would appreciate any help you can give.

What is the windowed "box" on the tender? Enjoy watching your travels💗🤟🏻😁

Nicely done! Question; do they stop the train on the down grade portion of the run to turn up retainers and cool the wheels? Again, very nicely done!

Hey, Toy Man TV - you mentioned that the Cumbres and Toltec is a for-profit "working" railroad, as well as a tourist line. Do you know if any of the steam engines actually haul freight traffic for the C&T, or do they do that mainly for reenactments and photo ops? I do love a good scenic railroad, but seeing these steam locomotives run cars to industry would be the real treat for me. EDIT: On that downhill run at the start there when the brakes started to smoke, I was wondering whether they'd have to stop the train and check for a hotbox!

Do they set retainers on downhill? If they don't how do they maintain the air? Splendid films, just like being there. Thanks for great videos

Is there a Y at OSIER to turn the locomotives? The last time I rode C&TSRR was 1993. Back then the steam engines changed trains and went through to the end of the line. The passenger cars went to Osier and back to their starting point. We rode from Chama to Osier and back. Stayed on the same car but were pulled back by a different loco.

And one of the hoppers that y’all video looks like it’s has a old chessie logo on it 🤔

dripping water tower

Noticed that there is many without masks, there is no Federal requirement for this type of transportation? Masks Federally required on buses and light rail here in Houston, TX.

Had a question for you or someone else on the forum. The Los Pinions water tank has what appears to be a permanent ladder up to the wood shingled roof. Any idea why they would have this? The roof looks sort of new so maybe they were using it during the rebuild and just haven't removed it yet?

Can someone explain the purpose of the “little house” mounted on the tender??

What's with what appears to be a cupula with windows in the center of the engine's tender?

How far can it go before it needs more water

What ride did you guys do? I've looked at their website and the only way I can think of doing that is by not going back on the bus.

Don’t know if you’ll see this comment. I have ridden the Durango to Silverton train but have never been to Cumbres and Toltec what is your advice for a visit? Which direction would you take the ride?

What are the names of the music sound track you use?

So how do you get back?

Hay toy folks have y’all heard about the UK 🇬🇧 coal ban proposal and do y’all have any comments on it