Fred Folk Wrote:
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> Robert,
> 315 never ran the line between Durango and Alamosa
> under it's own power, it did however got to
> Alamosa as freight for repairs, when it was
> brought over from Montrose it came over the RGS
> dead due to rod failure it worked most of its life
> after coming from the F&CC out of Salaida and
> Montrose till it became the Durango switcher in
> 1940.
> Fred
> BOD DRHS
Question. So if the rods got "fixed" in Alamosa why then couldn't it have "run back" to Durango or where ever, "light" over Cumbres pass? Was it hauled back that way as dead weight after getting "fixed"?