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Re: Cumbres train register, February 3, 1933

February 03, 2008 04:39PM
Here is what I copied during a day at the CRRM last year. Some third-division men mixed in.
engineers
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Roy Buchanan~ 9-1314F, 10-20-18E, Birthday 5-20-1893 (probable engineer on my first train ride, the Silverton in July 1957).
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Jim Connor~ 11-7-06F, 1-7-10E
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Jack Dieckman~ 12-7-05F, 11-12-09E
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Dan Holly~ 9-14-06F, 12-31-09E (San Juan engineer. One of the engineers when the San Juan was hit by the avalanche in 1948.)
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Jim Stephens 10-12-11F, 10-13-018E (Also an engineer when the San Juan was hit by the avalanche in 1948. The locomotives were the 473 and the 482 but I don't know which man had which engine.)
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Roy Brown 10-4-15F, 10-23-19E (fireman on last Chili Line train)
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Ben Hindelang 10-24-11F, 10-19-18E
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Charles Arnell 10-4-00F, 11-27-04E (engineer on last Chili Line train)
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George Arterbury 8-27-1882F, 9-6-1884E
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Lou Lathrop 8-18-1883F (I did not get his promotion date to engineer)
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Bob Morgan 12-13-52F (I did not get his promotion date to engineer)
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Andy Payne 18-29-57F, 2-5-64E
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Bob Parmenter 9-21-16F, 11-23-22E
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CT Courney 11-07-07 (This man was a standard gauge engineer between Pueblo and Salida. I looked up his date as a favor to Tom Courney, his gradnson and member of the Pueblo Railway Foundation. He was at the throttle of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's POTUS in 1936. POTUS stands for President of the United States and is what the president's train was called in pre Air Force 1 days.)

Conductors

Alva Lyons 6-25-15BB, 12-8-22C (The earlier date reflects his hiring on the bridge and building gang. Military service in WWI in France also counted.)
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Myron Henry 9-26-17B, 2-15-22C (Henry was promoted to conductor ahead of Lyons but Lyons B&B seniority gave him a higher slot on the board.)
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Punk Blackstone 10-7-41B (I did not get his date of promotion to conductor.)
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JC Legg 9-4-25B (Brakeman on last Chili Line Train)
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Richard ``Rusty'' Young 8-26-17B(Conductor on last Rio Grande operation over Marshall Pass, a Sargents Turn in May 1955.)
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Ed Boots 10-15-15B. (killed in Marshall Pass runaway. His daughter Jesse was a friend of my mother. His violent death was probably one reason my wanted me never to work for the railroad.)
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Eppie Mahoney 10-15-1898B, 12-12-07C (Shavano conductor. I believe he was conductor on the last run but would have to verify that.)

There were a lot of names so I copied just those who I had heard about and actually not all of them. After I got writer's cramp I talked to Bob LaMassena for a while.
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Cumbres train register, February 3, 1933

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Jim McKee February 03, 2008 11:56AM

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