493 leaving Alamosa - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967
| December 05, 2019 08:58AM |
52 years ago this morning, December 5, 1967, 493 was getting a roll on her train of pipe and drill mud, charging out of Alamosa on the 3-rail speedway to Antonito. This same morning 497 was leaving Durango on her last run to Chama. 493 would make three more freight runs out of Alamosa in 1968, double headed with 483, but 497 had left Alamosa for the final time on October 17, 1967and would not return.
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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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