Alamosa January 28, 1939

No.115 with engine 477

Depart Alamosa 7:10 AM 7 cars
Set out 2 cars Antontio
Depart Antonito 8:15 AM
Depart Cumbres 10:42 AM
Arrive Chama 11:30 AM
Engine 477 taken off and engine 478 added
Depart Chama 11:35 AM
Arrive Durango 4:35 PM

No. 116 with engine 482
Depart Durango 11:40 AM
Arrive Chama 4:25 PM
engine 482 taken off as road engine 477 added as road engine to Alamosa 482 used as helper to Cumbres account emergency, snow drifting
Depart Chama 4:30 PM
Cumbres 5:30 PM
Pick up 2 cars Antonito
Arrive Alamosa 9:03

Helper engine 482, off No. 116, depart Cumbres 5:45 PM
Arrive Chama 7:10 PM
West end enginer and fireman stayed on engine 482 for run to Cumbres and return to Chama

No. 115 and No. 116 only trains over Cumbres. An extra west was called out of Alamosa 11:30 PM departed Alamosa 12:05 AM (Jan 29)

Weather at Cumbres:
8:00 AM light snow 18 degrees 3 inches new snow
2:30 PM light snow 22 degrees 9 inches new snow
4:30 PM part cloudy, very light snow 6 inches new snow

Chama received a total of 7 inches new snow during the day


Standard gauge local with engine 930 left Alamosa early, 7:20 AM, in order to get 2 spuds for Santa Fe to No. 425.

Santa Fe Branch

No. 425 with engine 476
Conductor Pheney
Engineer Shumaker
Depart Antonito 9:40 AM with 10 loads
Arrive Santa Fe 4:30 PM with 6 loads

Hit truck Chamita 2 men injured (no other information shown)

No. 426 with engine 473
Conductor Willis
Engineer Baskett
Depart Santa Fe with 5 cars
Arrive Antontio 5:30 PM



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/2009 01:59PM by Jimmy Blouch.