Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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>
> The Chama engine dispatch book was a handwritten
> ledger mostly written by
Chama roundhouse foreman
> Frank Morrow that covered departing engines from
> February 1, 1961 to November 22, 1967. It did not
> cover arriving engines. Alamosa engineer Eldon
> Morgan, shown below oiling engine 493 at Cumbres
> on December 6, 1967, rescued the book. Ernie
> Robart took on the Herculean task of typing
> hundreds of entries into Microsoft Excel (32
> pages!). I am attaching the page that covers the
> months of December 1965 and January 1966. Earl has
> the same information.
In the Les Jarrett film about the 1991 rotary outing Eldon Morgan points out Frank Morrow as a machinist in a photograph taken during (I believe) the last D&RGW run of the OY. This would have been in or around 1962 I think. Was he later promoted to foreman in Chama? How long did that position last? I was under the impression that in later years shop men from Alamosa traveled by automobile to Chama when trains were run, rather than staff full time employees when trains were so infrequent.
Thanks,
Alan