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Alamosa March 14, 1939

March 14, 2009 10:08AM
No. 115 with engine 470

Depart Alamosa 7:10 AM with 7 cars
Antonito set out 2 cars for No. 425
Arrive Cumbres 10:43 AM
Depart Cumbres 10:45 AM
Arrive Chama 11:30 AM
Depart Chama 11:35 AM
Arrive Durango 4:35 PM

No. 116 with engine 475

Depart Durango 11:40 AM with 4 cars
Arrive Chama 4:25 PM
Depart Chama 4:30 PM
Arrive Cumbres 5:23 PM
Depart Cumbres 5:27 PM
Antonito pick up 2 cars from No. 425
Arrive Alamosa 9:05 PM

Chama extra west with engine 489

Depart Chama 11:45 AM with 16 loads 7 empties
Arrive Durango 9:30 PM with 11 loads 8 empties

Chama extra east with engines 484 and 482

Depart Chama 10:00 PM 13 loads 2 empties
Arrive Cumbres 11:30 PM
Engine 484 depart Cumbres 11:30 PM light arrive Alamosa 3:55 AM
Engine 482 depart Cumbres 11:40 PM with 13 loads 2 empties
Arrive Alamosa 4:15 AM

Santa Fe Branch

No. 425 with engine 476
Conductor Pheney
Engineer Dodds

Depart Antonito 8:48 AM with 7 loads
Arrive Santa Fe 4:30 PM with 5 loads

No. 426 with engine 473
Conductor Willis
Engineer Allbee

Depart Santa Fe 9:38 AM with RPO 62 coach 320
Arrive Antonito 5:30 PM with 4 loads 6 empties

Salida

Only trains over Marshall Pass were No. 315 and No. 316 with engine 472

Depart Salida 7:00 AM with 6 cars
Arrive Gunnison 10:56 AM
Depart Gunnison 6:30 PM with 6 cars
Arrive Salida 10:05 PM

Silverton Branch No. 461 and No. 462 with engines 459 and 478

Depart Durango 8:45 AM with 4 loads 4 empties
1 merchandise
1 flanger
combine 202
4 empty box
caboose
Dealy 45 minutes Hermosa to Elk Park rocks, 1 hour MP 492 to Silverton clear slides and ice
Arrive Silverton 1:45 PM, 25 minutes eat, switching, 10 minutes flange yard, 10 minutes turn
Depart Silverton 2:30 PM with 7 loads, includes 2 ore El Paso and 2 ore Eilers
Needleton 30 minutes work on engine 459
Arrive Durango 6:30 PM

Crested Butte Branch with engine 474

Depart Gunnison 2:05 PM with flanger and 38 empties
Milepost 312 - 3:50 PM to 6:15 PM flanging and stuck in snow
Almont 7:55 PM to 8:15 PM set out
Arrive Gunnison 9:00 PM
Conductor Purcil reports: Stuck in snow, rotary job, too deep for wedge plow." (Does not appear wedge plow used on this trip, he is recommending wedge not be used to open line for this situation)

With exception of Creede Branch and Antonito turn no other acitivity this date.

Jimmy
Subject Author Posted

Alamosa March 14, 1939

Jimmy Blouch March 14, 2009 10:08AM

Re: Alamosa March 14, 1939

Brian Norden March 14, 2009 11:48PM

Re: Alamosa March 14, 1939

hank March 15, 2009 10:08AM



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