Re: Seaching for existing answers . . .

pd3463 Wrote:
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> Here is a question that may be obvious though
> I can’t see it.


Hi, Phil -

As suggested above, I just used the advanced link under the useless SEARCH field at the upper right of the page, and found several previous posts related to your questions.  The very first post on the 'Red Devil Coal Loader AFE Info' thread answers your question as to why the coaling trestle (NOT tipple) was replaced.  I'll intersperse some other answers below.

- Willie


> Why did they replace the Antonito coal tipple
> [trestle] in the mid- to late 50s?

See [ngdiscussion.net].

> Was this a great need once the Chili Line was
> torn up?  Or, was the coaling for NG topped
> off here for westward runs?

The Latter.

> Was the coal for this location coming off the NG?

Mostly from Monero, IIRC, and probably also from Hesperus until the demise of the RGS.

> My thinking is that at this time, they would have
> filled at Alamosa and been good until reaching
> Chama.

IIRC, during the fifties & sixties westbound n.g. freights were usually double-headed from Alamosa to Antonito.  There both engines topped up water & coal and the helper was almost always moved back in the train before starting the long 1.42% climb to Cumbres.

> I guess where did the coal for Alamosa and
> Antonito come from?

IIRC mostly from Monero in the later years (see above).  Others probably have more complete info.

- Sincerely, Willie  (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)  
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