Photograph of Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad — Photograph by Drew Jacksich from San Jose, California, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad San Juan Extension

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1970. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, often abbreviated as the C&TSRR, is a 3 ft narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 64 miles (103 km) of track between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico, in the United States. The railroad is named for two geographical features along the route: the 10,015-foot (3,053 m)-high Cumbres Pass and the Toltec Gorge.”
Wikipedia article Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Archuleta County · listed in 1973 · category: District · built in 1970 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Between Antonito and Chama, NM via Cumbres Pass, Antonito
When was it listed? February 1973
Category. district
Also known as. Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 MPS
When was it built? 1970
National Register reference number. 73000462 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000462 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Archuleta County	All 2 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.