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Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad

Index Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad

The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS) is a narrow-gauge heritage railroad running for 64 miles (103 km) between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico, United States. [1]

71 relations: A Million Ways to Die in the West, Agriculture, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Antonito, Colorado, Archuleta County, Colorado, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Bite the Bullet (film), Chama, New Mexico, Clerestory, Coach (bus), Coaling tower, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Concession stand, Conejos County, Colorado, Cumbres Pass, D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle, Delta Burke, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Dinner train, Durango, Colorado, Economy class, Education, Girder bridge, Government contractor, Heber Valley Railroad, Heritage railway, Hostiles (film), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Industry, List of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad lines, List of heritage railroads in the United States, List of National Historic Landmarks in Colorado, List of National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico, Locomotive, Locomotive frame, Mining, Museum docent, Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States, Narrow-gauge railway, National Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listings in Conejos County, Colorado, National Register of Historic Places listings in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, New Mexico, Nonprofit organization, Ore, Osier, Colorado, Parlor car, Pen (enclosure), ..., Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, Rio Chama, Rio Grande 168, Rio Grande 169, Rio Grande 463, Rio Grande class K-36, Rio Grande class K-37, Rotary snowplow, San Juan Express, San Juan Mountains, Snow shed, Sublette, New Mexico, Track bed, Trestle bridge, Water stop, Water tank, Where the Hell's That Gold?, Willie Nelson, Wye (rail), 2-8-2, 4-6-0. Expand index (21 more) »

A Million Ways to Die in the West

A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 American western comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane, who wrote the screenplay with Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.

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Antonito, Colorado

The Town of Antonito is a Statutory Town located in Conejos County, Colorado, United States.

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Archuleta County, Colorado

Archuleta County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Baldwin Locomotive Works

The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1956.

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Bite the Bullet (film)

Bite the Bullet is a 1975 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, and James Coburn, with Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, and Dabney Coleman in supporting roles.

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Chama, New Mexico

Chama is a village in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States.

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Clerestory

In architecture, a clerestory (lit. clear storey, also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey) is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye level.

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Coach (bus)

A coach (also motor coach) is a type of bus used for conveying passengers.

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Coaling tower

A coaling tower, coal stage or coaling station is a facility used to load coal as fuel into railway steam locomotives.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the largest city by area in Colorado as well as the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

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Concession stand

A concession stand (American English), snack kiosk or snack bar (British English, Irish English) is a place where patrons can purchase snacks or food at a cinema, amusement park, fair, stadium, beach, swimming pool, concert, sporting event, or other entertainment venue.

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Conejos County, Colorado

Conejos County is one of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Cumbres Pass

Cumbres Pass, elevation, is a mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, United States.

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D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle

The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad's Cimarron Canyon trestle, listed as D&RG Narrow Gauge Trestle on the National Register of Historic Places, is a narrow-gauge railroad deck truss bridge crossing the Cimarron River, within the Curecanti National Recreation Area near Cimarron, Colorado.

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Delta Burke

Delta Ramona Leah Burke (born July 30, 1956) is an American actress, producer and author.

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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.

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Dinner train

A dinner train is a relatively new type of tourist train service whose main purpose is to allow people to eat dinner while experiencing a relatively short, leisurely round trip train ride.

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Durango, Colorado

The City of Durango is the county seat and the most populous municipality of La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

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Economy class

Economy class, also called coach class, steerage, standard class or (slang) cattle class, is the lowest travel class of seating in air travel, rail travel, and sometimes ferry or maritime travel.

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Education

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

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Girder bridge

A girder bridge, in general, is a bridge that uses girders as the means of supporting the deck.

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Government contractor

A government contractor is a company (privately owned or publicly traded but not a state-owned enterprise)either for profit or non-profitthat produces goods or services under contract for the government.

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Heber Valley Railroad

The Heber Valley Railroad (HVRX) is a heritage railroad based in Heber City, Utah.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Hostiles (film)

Hostiles is a 2017 American Western film written and directed by Scott Cooper, based on a story by Donald E. Stewart.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas.

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Industry

Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.

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List of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad lines

The following rail lines have been owned or operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad or its predecessors.

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List of heritage railroads in the United States

This is a list of heritage railways in the United States.

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List of National Historic Landmarks in Colorado

This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Colorado.

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List of National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico

This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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Locomotive frame

A locomotive frame is the structure that forms the backbone of the railway locomotive, giving it strength and supporting the superstructure elements such as a cab, boiler or bodywork.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Museum docent

Museum docent is a title given in the United States of America to persons who serve as guides and educators for the institutions they serve, usually on a voluntary basis.

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Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States

Standard gauge was favored for railway construction in the United States, although a fairly large narrow-gauge system developed in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Utah.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Conejos County, Colorado

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Conejos County, Colorado.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Ore

An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.

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Osier, Colorado

Osier is a populated place in Conejos County, Colorado, USA.

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Parlor car

A parlor car (or parlour car outside the United States of America) is a type of passenger coach that provides superior comforts and amenities when compared to a standard coach.

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Pen (enclosure)

A pen is an enclosure for holding animals such as livestock or pets that are unwanted inside the house.

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Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Rio Arriba County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Rio Chama

The Rio Chama, a major tributary river of the Rio Grande, is located in the U.S. states of Colorado and New Mexico.

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Rio Grande 168

Denver and Rio Grande Western No.

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Rio Grande 169

Denver and Rio Grande Western No.

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Rio Grande 463

D&RGW 463 is a 3 foot narrow gauge, Mikado type, 2-8-2 steam railway locomotive built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1903.

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Rio Grande class K-36

The Denver and Rio Grande Western K-36 class are ten narrow gauge, Mikado type, 2-8-2 steam locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW) by Baldwin Locomotive Works.

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Rio Grande class K-37

Denver & Rio Grande Western K-37s are 2-8-2, Mikado type, narrow gauge steam locomotives.

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Rotary snowplow

A rotary snowplow is a piece of railroad snow removal equipment with a large circular set of blades on its front end that rotate to cut through the snow on the track ahead of it.

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San Juan Express

The San Juan Express (also known as simply the San Juan) was a narrow gauge train that ran on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) route from Durango, Colorado via Chama, New Mexico; Cumbres Pass; and Antonito, Colorado to Alamosa, Colorado.

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San Juan Mountains

The San Juan Mountains are a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico.

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Snow shed

A snow shed, snow bridge or avalanche gallery is a type of rigid snow-supporting structure for avalanche control (avalanche defense) or to maintain passage in areas where snow removal becomes almost impossible.

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Sublette, New Mexico

Sublette is a railroad town in northern Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, built as a section station in 1880.

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Track bed

The track bed or trackbed is the groundwork onto which a railway track is laid.

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Trestle bridge

A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used both as stools and to support tables at banquets.

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Water stop

0 A water stop or water station on a railroad is a place where steam trains stop to replenish water.

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Water tank

A water tank is a container for storing water.

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Where the Hell's That Gold?

Where the Hell's That Gold? (stylized as Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?) is a 1988 American made-for-television Western film starring Willie Nelson, Jack Elam and Delta Burke.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist.

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Wye (rail)

In railroad structures, and rail terminology, a wye (like the 'Y' glyph) or triangular junction is a triangular joining arrangement of three rail lines with a railroad switch (set of points) at each corner connecting to each incoming line.

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2-8-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck.

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4-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the configuration of four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbres_and_Toltec_Scenic_Railroad

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