Russo Loco Wrote:
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. . . OTOH, the third of the "Three Great Events"
> moonlight dinner trains had run the night before,
> and IIRC in all three cases #483 had pulled the
> train to Osier, run around the train there, and
> had pulled the train home to Chama running in
> reverse as far as the wye at Cumbres.
>
> IIRC, there's no way the engine could have run
> around the dinner train at Osier if either switch
> had been out of service, and I can't imagine that
> Scenic Railways would have given even 2 sec-
> onds to the idea of pushing a long train full of
> passengers uphill from Osier to Cumbres
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Earl Wrote:
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> Russo will remember on his famous "Moonlight
> Excursion" in the early 1970's that in order to
> run around the train at Osier, they had to "drop"
> the entire train by the engine at Osier. An inter-
> esting maneuver at best, downright scary in the
> dark.
Based on his post above it's obvious that Roosso didn't remember too well, Earl -
But considering that those events were more than four dozen years ago it's not too surprising. I definitely don't remember there being a 'flying drop' when the train pulled in, so did they do it after the passengers were unloaded and all safely out of the way waiting in line for their succulent (usually well after) sunset steak dinners? Or is there enough of a downgrade to the east that once the engine was moved to that end of the siding the brakes on the train could be released enough to allow it to coast past the engine??
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. For photos of the September 22 "Great Event" dinner train see [
ngdiscussion.net].
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/27/2019 02:10PM by Russo Loco.
