Steam Powered Rotary Snow Plow!

The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad demonstrates how the Rio Grande Narrow Gauge cleared snow from their tracks during the winter months. In early 2020 BC (Before COVID) the Cumbres and Toltec ran Rotary OY on a photographer’s special from Chama, New Mexico, to the 10,000 foot summit of Cumbres Pass in Colorado. Two K-36 Mikado steam locomotives powered the rotary up the 4% grade in an all-steam extravaganza! These scenes were taken from our program “Steam and Snow: Rotary OY on Cumbres Pass.“ It is available on DVD, Hi-Definition Blu-ray, and 4K Digital Download by logging onto .