Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Earl Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > On Dec. 28, 487 (C. Jack, J. Shawcroft) and 493
> (R.
> > Morgan, G. Cunningham) headed east for Alamosa,
> > called at 8am. A west bound freight was
> headed to
> > Chama, while over in Durango 488 and 484 were
> > headed east. Carl & Jim somehow ended up
> back
> > in Chama that night, but with the 493. 487
> with
> > Bob Morgan and Gayle Cunningham disappear.
> > I assume they ended up going home to Alamosa.
> > 498 came west from Alamosa with Lee Otteson
> > and Wierick. A guess is 498 started east
> alone,
> > 493 on the flanger train was turned in Antonito
> and
> > doubled back to Chama helping 498. 493 had
> a
> > plow 498 did not. How Carl and Jim got the
> short
> > straw to go back to Chama is interesting.
> >
> > It gets more interesting in that the next train
> > out of Chama is
:
> >
> > Extra East
> > 493 Eng. C. Jack, Frm. J. Shawcroft
> > 488 Eng. Lee Otteson, Frm. Weirick
> >
Called for 3:30 am (!!)
> >
> > How the crews got rested would be interesting
> > to find out
. . .
>
>
I wonder if that 3:30 might be a typo,
> Earl – and it was actually 8:30 – or
> at least a more reasonable 5:30 or 6:30 a.m.?
>
>
:
>
:
>
> > So, Olaf lucked out and caught the last
> operations
> > on the narrow gauge for the winter of 1965-66.
>
>
> Olaf and Jeff Stebbins palled around a lot with
> Ernie, and all three of them took hundreds of
> excellent photos of the last three or four years
> of freight operations between Alamosa and Durango
> –
>
> In addition to his movies of the Last REAL Freight
> that are featured on the
Trains Magazine
> DVD, Olaf has three dozen still photos of an
> eastbound freight on November 9 & 10, 1967 and
> about 100 photos of the westbound "Mad Dash" of
> 05/28/68. IIRC he hasn't posted any of them
> yet
. . .
Not a typo. Hand written into the ledger - 3:30AM. Plain as can be....
