Re: Cumbres train register January 18, 1933 (75 yrs. ago)

Newspaper account...

January 18, 1933, Wednesday
Cumbres Pass is Closed By Snow, Trains Are Held
Traffic to Durango and Santa Fe Disrupted; Rotary to be Sent Out Soon.

Heavy snow and a strong southwest wind caused the discontinuance of trains on the D&RGW railroad to Chama, Santa Fe. and Durango. Wednesday train number 115 out of Alamosa for Durango was operated as a stub as far as Antonito, leaving here at 1 o’clock. Train number 116 between Durango and Alamosa was operated as a stub between Durango and Chama, returning to Durango this evening. The passenger trains between Santa Fe. N.M. and Antonito was not run.

W.S. Graham, chief dispatcher for the railroad at Alamosa says that a rotary snow plow will be operated between Antonito and Chama, and between Antonito and Taos Junction as soon as the storm abates.
Reports from railroad section foremen at Sublette and Big Horn are that the heavy winds have drifted the cuts full of snow and the drifts are 8 and 10 feet high. The agent at Cumbres states that the drifts at Cumbres and on the straight track east of Cumbres station are from 6 to 8 feet deep.