Re: Narrow Gauge Circle broken - Cerro timelines

hank Wrote:
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> tgbcvr Wrote:
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> > PS. I’ve never seen photos of the
> > Sapinero-Montrose scrap trains. Have any ever
> > appeared online or in print?
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> On 7/7/49 Bob Richardson took photos of the
> Cimarron yard being scrapped using #360. Two can
> be found on pg 129 of "Scenic Line of the World" ,
> CRA #8 1970
> Same book, on page 127 has two pictures by John
> Maxwell of #456 on the last eastbound freight
> (5/28/49) which has a long string of gons. I've
> always wondered if some of these wound up as part
> of the scrappers train.There are also pictures
> from the Summer of '49 of #278 working the
> Sapinero branch out of Gunnison and hauling
> carloads of rail from the Black Canyon/Cerro
> Summit line East for (probably) scrap but I forget
> where I saw those.
>
> That's all I can think of. Unlike the RGS 3 years
> later, the scrapping of this line doesn't seem to
> have drawn many photographers. Of course it went a
> lot faster too.
>
> Hank


I think there may be some photos of the scrap train in John Krause’s book Colorado Memories of the Narrow Gauge Circle.