D&RGW Cumbres Train Register
February 12, 1933 (Sunday)
6:00 PM Extra east rotary OY (Good 23, Todd 31), engines 482 (Boyd 35) - 487 (A. S. Johnson 44), arrives, caboose 04990 (Skirvin).
6:20 PM Passenger extra east (Edmiston), engine 475 (Allbee 20), arrives, 4 cars.
6:40 PM Extra east rotary OY, engines 482-487, departs, caboose 04990.
7:10 PM Passenger extra east 475 departs, 4 cars.
8:25 PM Extra east 486 (Kearins 33) – 489 (Nissen 48) arrives, 13 loads, 456 tons, caboose 04343 (Roberts).
8:50 PM Extra east 486 – 489 departs, 14 loads, 414 tons, caboose 04343.
Additional information from Jimmy Blouch, from the Alamosa Division dispatcher train sheets.
Alamosa-Durango
No. 116 Durango to Chama annulled
No. 115 Chama to Durango annulled
Alamosa-Antonito-Chama
No. 115-116 with 476
Engineer Hopper, Conductor McHolland
Depart Alamosa 1:00 PM
Arrive back Alamosa 7:15 PM
Rotary OY with 482-487
Departed Chama 3:35 PM
Arrived Cumbres 6:00 PM, departed 6:40 PM
Arrived Antonito 1:55 AM
Conductor delay report:
Extra 482-487 rotary east delayed:
Chama: 15 minutes for engines, 10 minutes switching, 10 minutes air inspection
Lobato: 10 minutes plowing out siding
Cresco: 15 minutes plowing out siding
Milepost 333.75: 25 minutes repairing broken rail
Cumbres: 40 minutes plowing out wye and taking water
Osier: 40 minutes eating
Sublette: 15 minutes take water
Antonito: 1 hour 5 minutes coal water and turning train to head south on Santa Fe branch.
Milepost 297 Santa Fe Branch: 3 hours 10 minutes digging out No. 426.
Tied up Antonito 10:20 AM
Notation on train sheet: "Sublette and Cumbres only sidings clear others snowed in."
Another notation: "Rotary does not clean pass tracks east of Cumbres." (Did not attempt to clear sidings east of Cumbres due to stormy conditions.)
One more notation: "McGinnis (trainmaster) at Antonito says found cuts nearly full hard snow Sublette to Antonito wind blowing and drifting...Don't think best let No. 115 into it." "Conductor Edmiston X475 same opinion."
Passenger extra with 475 (No. 116 of Feb 11)
Engineer Allbee
Conductor Edmisten
Departed Chama 5:25 PM
Arrived Cumbres 6:40 PM, departed 7:10 PM
Arrived Alamosa 3:15 AM
Work extra west Alamosa with 472-485
472 engineer Coughlin
485 engineer Rowe
Conductor E Morgan
To go to Santa Fe Branch get No. 426 of Feb 11
Departed Alamosa 7:35 AM
Arrived Antonito 8:45 AM
Not successful in freeing train No. 426. Returned to Antonito 9:50 PM and returned to Alamosa with caboose only. Rotary OY was finally able to get the equipment into Antonito.
Santa Fe Branch
Extra 471 east/west
Engineer Owens
Conductor Hurley
Departed Santa Fe 1:30 PM
Arrived Taos Jct. 6:30 PM
Departed Taos Jct. 8:00 PM
Arrived Santa Fe 12:15 AM (Feb 13)
Conductor delay report:
Santa Fe: 30 minutes switch
Embudo: 20 minutes water and switching, 1 hour thaw water car
Taos Jct.: 25 minutes switching, 1 hour 5 minutes thaw and empty water cars.
Santa Fe: 12:05 AM to 12:15 AM put away
(Departed Santa Fe with baggage 126. Arrived Taos Jct. with 3 loads, 6 empties. Departed Taos Jct. with 2 empties)
Notation on train sheet: "Cornell on phone MP 297 3:30 AM wind gone down, now calm, part of train shoveled out on 1 side. 4:50 AM Conway on phone, wind came up blowing hard again and snow drifting, can see rotary coming close."
