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Good Morning -
Picking up where we left off last evening, it was a very cold but busy morning in Chama fifty years ago today as #483 has had her cistern filled, the engines move forward to the coaling tower, and then #473 moves away as #483's tender is topped off with fuel:
Photos copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Here #483 has returned from being turned on the wye at the south end of town. I presume the large Rio Grande truck at the right has just brought in the west-end crew who will take #473 and her train on to Durango:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
The two locomotives pose briefly back-to-back:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . and then #473 heads west with her train:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
The small puff of exhaust steam at the far left in the above photo is the only shot Ernie has of #483's return from Chama to Alamosa with two of yesterday's three cabeese — the very last D&RGW operation over Cumbres Pass.
#473, with #481 in tow and a recently acquired Christmas tree adorning the roof of caboose #0540, passes the wye on her left and the Skyline lumber mill on her right and heads west toward Durango:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
(To be continued.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/06/2018 11:20AM by Russo Loco.
Picking up where we left off last evening, it was a very cold but busy morning in Chama fifty years ago today as #483 has had her cistern filled, the engines move forward to the coaling tower, and then #473 moves away as #483's tender is topped off with fuel:
Photos copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Here #483 has returned from being turned on the wye at the south end of town. I presume the large Rio Grande truck at the right has just brought in the west-end crew who will take #473 and her train on to Durango:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
The two locomotives pose briefly back-to-back:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . and then #473 heads west with her train:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
The small puff of exhaust steam at the far left in the above photo is the only shot Ernie has of #483's return from Chama to Alamosa with two of yesterday's three cabeese — the very last D&RGW operation over Cumbres Pass.
#473, with #481 in tow and a recently acquired Christmas tree adorning the roof of caboose #0540, passes the wye on her left and the Skyline lumber mill on her right and heads west toward Durango:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
(To be continued.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/06/2018 11:20AM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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