Re: C&TSRR - Narrows & Chama Y

guymonmd Wrote:
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> Mr. Ed Wrote:
>
> > I hoped to get a photo of the train backing
> down
> > below Manzanita Drive, I realized that I had
> > goofed. The train obviously only has to back
> down
> > far enough to let the locomotive clear the
> switch,
> > so the only thing that crosses the road at that
> > point is the last couple of cars.
>
> That depends. If the train enters they wye engine
> first, and the backs up on the other leg of the
> wye, the engine and a car or two would cross
> Manzanita Drive, then back up.

The direction of the train changes each day. The crew leaves the switches at the wye in the position they are when passing through them. One day the engine is first down the new wye track and the next day the parlor car is first. If you check the position of the switch at the north side of the cattle pens, you can determine which directions the afternoon train will enter and leave the legs of the wye.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/2014 06:13PM by Dave Boyer.