Re: Alamosa September 15 1965

John West Wrote:
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> Thanks Jimmy. I was over chasing the train on the
> west end, so I don't have to worry about all the
> confusion at Cumbres. And now I can reconstruct
> the somewhat simpler happenings between Durango
> and Juanita where we had to give up the chase.
> Certainly seems to have been a lot of MOW going
> on. A rather large fill was being replaced on the
> Farmington branch, the slip out at 446.02, and the
> spreader working on Cumbres. And the next day
> when the train came west out of Chama it had a big
> dozer on a flatcar at the head end of the consist.
> I'm guessing it was an unusually wet monsoon
> season causing a lot of runoff and moisture
> problems.
>
> But speaking of the dozer, I wonder if this would
> have cleared the tunnels or if it was loaded west
> of the tunnels (westbound leaving Gato on
> September 16, 1965).
>
>

>
>
> JBWX

Only a GUESS, picked up around Osier a day or two prior.

The box car behind the dozer was the tool car assigned to the dozer. It would have contained fuel and miscellaneous items in connection with the dozer.

In viewing one of your earlier posts, the balance of the train was pipe.

Jimmy