The Chili Line: Is this the Chama River bridge? (376C)
| August 18, 2018 12:13PM |
The Chiliheads over at TheSantaFeBranchChiliLine@groups.io may have uncovered a photo of the elusive Rio Chama bridge (367C) on the Chili Line.
Here's a very truncated version of that conversation:
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Compare the Google Earth screenshot below with THIS PHOTO on the Friends of the C&TS page. Does that look like a match? Both have a low 8 panel trestle in the foreground, a sign a little further along the ROW, then what appears to be a steel truss bridge in the background.
Jimmy Blouch posted the history of this bridge HERE if you need a refresher on the evolution of this bridge.
What date is the photo? The locomotive in the photo was #207, which was scrapped in Oct 1927 per THIS PAGE, so it's obviously prior to that.
And this photo is in Dorman's "The Chili Line and Santa Fe the City Different" but it's in the Antonito-Chama portion of the book WITH THE BRIDGE CROPPED OUT!
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It turns out y'all have talked about this photo before HERE
If you want to take a closer look at the location in Google Maps go HERE
So what do you folks think? Is it really 367C? Can you folks narrow down the time range any?
Here's a very truncated version of that conversation:
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Compare the Google Earth screenshot below with THIS PHOTO on the Friends of the C&TS page. Does that look like a match? Both have a low 8 panel trestle in the foreground, a sign a little further along the ROW, then what appears to be a steel truss bridge in the background.
Jimmy Blouch posted the history of this bridge HERE if you need a refresher on the evolution of this bridge.
What date is the photo? The locomotive in the photo was #207, which was scrapped in Oct 1927 per THIS PAGE, so it's obviously prior to that.
And this photo is in Dorman's "The Chili Line and Santa Fe the City Different" but it's in the Antonito-Chama portion of the book WITH THE BRIDGE CROPPED OUT!
***
It turns out y'all have talked about this photo before HERE
If you want to take a closer look at the location in Google Maps go HERE
So what do you folks think? Is it really 367C? Can you folks narrow down the time range any?
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DakotaRed | August 18, 2018 12:13PM |
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jim pallow | August 18, 2018 12:56PM |
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BillD | August 20, 2018 04:57PM |
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