Re: Agents in final D&RGW NG years

Example: A car of poles is set out at Ignacio for Public Service Co. of CO. The freight/waybill would be taken to Durango and the agent there would notify PSC of the spotting of the car, its number, and the charges. PSC would at some point pay for the freight charges probably by paying the company direct in Denver. If a car was loaded with lumber at New Juanita (Mill Track), the way bill might be left right on the car itself to be taken by the conductor to Chama and left with the agent there, to be taken on by the Alamosa conductor when the eastbound left. The coal mine at Monero billed cars of coal to the company at various locations east of there, and the bills were always put into a little box close to where the old depot used to be. Cars of drilling mud for National Lead in Farmington were often used as warehouses for months at a time, with no demurage charged. A vest pocket agreement was supposedly in place that the company wouldnt charge for demurage if National Lead wouldnt make claims for damaged bags of mud. The only freight that came out of Durango was the lumber from the Weidman mill, and maybe a car or two of Hesperus coal, and two cars of pipe thread protectors out of Farmington about every 6 months. Im sure all those cars were weighed at Alamosa. Sometimes the Skyline lumber was weighed in Chama. Just some random musings here of what went on in the last days of operation. Al Stevenson