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BB_TX · 09-06-2017, 06:26 PM

Any time anyone inquires about Carlsbad, there are always comments recommending avoiding US 285 between Carlsbad and I-20, maybe even I-10. Apparently a very rough highway due to heavy oil field traffic.

If you plan to ride the Cumbres & Toltec steam train (and I recommend it), take the bus from Chama to Antonito and ride the train back. Antonito is in the flat dry San Luis valley. The train starts there and begins its climb into mountains and over the high passes. Would be somewhat anticlimactic the other direction.

09-06-2017, 06:26 PM	#2
BB_TX Montana Master Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: McKinney Posts: 7,160 M.O.C. #6433	Any time anyone inquires about Carlsbad, there are always comments recommending avoiding US 285 between Carlsbad and I-20, maybe even I-10. Apparently a very rough highway due to heavy oil field traffic. If you plan to ride the Cumbres & Toltec steam train (and I recommend it), take the bus from Chama to Antonito and ride the train back. Antonito is in the flat dry San Luis valley. The train starts there and begins its climb into mountains and over the high passes. Would be somewhat anticlimactic the other direction. __________________ Bill & Patricia Riley, our Golden 2007 3075RL (recently sold, currently without)