The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad: The Historic Preservation Study

Description

Authors: Wilson, Spencer (1929-2013) and Glover, Vernon J.  (1936-2024)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  Without dust jacket.  No tears, bends, folds.  Some pen markings in the first ten pages, then nothing thereafter.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  The Cumbres & Toltec was very much a working narrow-gauge railroad in its early life, hauling lumber and livestock, ore from the mines of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.  In its present iteration it is a tourist railroad, owned jointly by the states of New Mexico and Colorado,  running steam locomotives and passenger cars through 64 miles of the high country from Chama, New Mexico to Antonito, Colorado.  The purpose of this volume was to provide a history of every piece of rolling stock, all the associated structures, and dated photographs to establish condition of anything associated with the railroad at the time of writing.  A rolling museum of railroad technology.