Last Train to Farmington

Hi, All -

Ernie Robart just sent me the following:

Tomorrow, 8-31-08, is the 40th Anniversary of the Last Train to Farmington,
marking the Last Revenue Train to operate on the D&RGW Narrow Gauge!
The train was pulled by engine #483 and the consist was:
    1 flat car of rails from Durango, 18 boxcars of
    drilling mud and 2 bulkhead flats of wallboard.
The return consist to Durango was:
    12 empty boxcars, 16 empty flatcars, 2 empty
    open-end gons. All cars except the 12 boxcars
    were set off at Carbon Junction, the 12 boxcars
    were taken to Durango.

The end of revenue freight service on the narrow gauge.

*****

Sorry, no pix - you'll have to bug Ernie or wait for his next book.

- Russo