Back in the summer of the year 2000, I took a trip west to Colorado and New Mexico. There, I spent a day on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad taking the excursion ride between Chama, New Mexico and Antonito, Colorado. I’d taken this journey some years before, and enjoyed it enough then to repeat the journey again.

Traveling through the mountains, I captured this view of the fireman hanging out of the locomotive’s gangway perhaps getting a breath of fresh, cooler air during his break as the train was drifting down a grade. I liked the mountain peak in the distance, which emphasized the enormity of the terrain compared to the little train.