November 30, 2014 09:11AM
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.....yes the feud between misters Squire and Buchanan was quite legendary. Jim ended up firing for Buchanan quite a bit.
In the winter of 1957, Jim fired a run to Chama, then got shanghaied into firing Rotary OM. A blizzard closed the hill, OY was struggling westward, so the Durango Boys got assigned the OM and told to head east.
They got to Coxo where they got hopelessly derailed. They were marooned there for days. Eventually they air dropped some food to them, and the US Army attempted to send snow cats up to them. Eventually they were rescued by a plowless #480 slowly following a bulldozer plowing it's way up the hill. Jim got home about 2 weeks after leaving home, with only one change of clothes. He said when he finally staggered into his house, his wife didn't recognize him as he was so dirty.
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