Wednesday March 17 1937
ALAMOSA
Cumbres:
6:50 AM snowing hard, light SW wind, drifting some, 10" new snow last night
8:15 AM snowing light, light SW wind
9:40 AM, 11:50 AM, 1:01 PM, snowing light, light SW wind
3:40 PM mostly cloudy, light SW wind
4:30 PM foggy, light SW wind
9:00 PM snowing quite hard, brisk SW wind, drifting
Chama:
4:00 AM snowing hard, calm
8:15 AM snowing hard, light SW wind, 6” new snow overnight
9:50 AM clearing up
4:00 PM raining and snowing
Big Horn 7:10 AM partly cloudy, calm, 1” new snow
Sublette 7:15 AM partly cloudy, calm, 1” new snow
Osier 7:15 AM snowing pretty hard, light wind, drifting little, about 3 feet in spots, wet and heavy, about 10” new snow overnight
Wire open west, no battery Durango, OK 10:30 PM, no power Durango
Chama extra east with engines 464 and 489, plow and flanger, Lava turn
Conductor Cornell
Engine 464 Rowe
Engine 489 Kearin
Depart Chama 4:10 AM
Stuck 10 or 15 times Coxo to Windy Point
Arrive Cumbres 6:30 AM
Depart Cumbres 8:35 AM
Arrive Lava 11:37 AM
Depart Lava 11:50 AM
Arrive Cumbres 1:45 PM
Depart Cumbres 1:55 PM
Arrive Chama 2:45 PM
Conductor delay report information not available, no other detail shown
No. 115 with engine 475
Conductor Conway
Engineer Arnell (to Chama)
Swing brakeman D E Smith
Depart Alamosa 7:10 AM with 10 cars
155 (freight)
119
163 (freight)
164
272
312
Alamosa
125
62
306
Arrive Antonito 8:10 AM, set out cars 125, 62 and 306 for No. 425
Depart Antonito 10:00 AM with 7 cars
Arrive Cumbres 1:50 PM
Depart Cumbres 2:05 PM
Arrive Chama 2:50 PM, meet No. 116
Depart Chama 2:55 PM (engineer House)
Arrive Durango 8:15 PM with 7 cars
No. 116 with engine 477
Conductor Peel
Engineer Densmore (to Chama)
Swing brakeman not shown, if used, Reynolds
Depart Durango 9:50 AM with 8 cars
65
154 (freight)
111 (freight)
169 (freight)
168
325
310
Durango
Arrive Chama 2:45 PM, meet No. 115, add helper engine 470, engineer Todd, stay on to Alamosa
Depart Chama 3:20 PM
Arrive Cumbres 4:10 PM
Depart Cumbres 4:15 PM
Antonito pick up 2 cars from No. 426
63
320
Arrive Alamosa 7:45 PM with 10 cars
Durango work extra 375 east, ditcher outfit
Conductor F Edmisten
Engineer Fitzer
Depart Durango 1:10 PM
Meet with No. 115 not shown
Arrive Arboles 7:00 PM, tie up 7:00 PM
Durango extra 486 east
Conductor Fry
Engineer Klahn
Depart Durango 4:00 PM with 10 loads 8 empties
La Boca 35 minutes meet No. 115
Pagosa Jct 35 minutes eat, water, mdse
Dulce 10 minutes switching
Arrive Chama 12:10 AM with 9 loads 2 empties
Alamosa extra 478 west, light engine to Antonito for No. 425
Engineer Walsh
Depart Alamosa 8:40 AM
Arrive Antonito 9:45 AM
Santa Fe branch
Train No. 425 with engine 478
Conductor Willis
Engineer Walsh
Depart Antonito 10:05 AM with 3 loads
125
62
306
Arrive Santa Fe 5:00 PM with 4 loads
Train No. 426 with engine 471
Conductor Pheney
Engineer Clarke
Depart Santa Fe 9:40 AM with 4 loads
1 mdse Espanola
1 mdse Alamosa
63
320
Arrive Antonito 5:30 PM with 4 loads 6 empties
SALIDA
Marshall Pass snowing lightly, 1” new snow, 16” old snow
Sargent snow, calm, 1” new snow
Train No. 315 and Train No. 316 with engine 472
Conductor E P Mahoney
Engineer Shewalter
Train No. 315 depart Salida 6:00 AM with 5 cars
158
60
129
302
Camp Bird
Arrive Marshall Pass 7:35 AM
Depart Marshall Pass 7:37 AM
Sargent to Gunnison 5 minutes slow orders
Arrive Gunnison 9:45 AM with 5 cars
Train No. 316 depart Gunnison 6:45 PM with 5 cars, 40 minutes for bus
158
129
60
302
Camp Bird
Gunnison to Sargent 5 minutes slow orders
Arrive Salida 10:10 PM
Mahoney reported weather OK over hill, no wind
Salida extra 499 west with helper engine 498, to Gunnison
Conductor Sandberg
Engine 499 Hyatt
Engine 498 Veo
Depart Salida 5:45 AM with 8 loads 28 empties
Poncha Jct 15 minutes reducing and take water
Arrive Marshall Pass 9:30 AM with 8 loads 16 empties, 20 minutes cut helper out, 50 minutes unload car of snow
Engine 498 depart Marshall Pass 9:35 AM light for Gunnison
Extra 499 west depart Marshall Pass 10:40 AM with 8 loads 16 empties
Sargent 55 minutes set coal, unload freight, eat
Arrive Gunnison 2:35 PM with 7 loads 3 empties
Salida extra 496 west with helper engine 481, Valley line
Conductor Sloan
Engine 496 Cullinan
Engine 481 W Wilson
Depart Salida 10:45 AM with 4 loads 16 empties
5 empty rebuilt coals
11 empty box
Mears Jct to Round Hill, first trip, then Mears Jct to Poncha Pass 2 times
Arrive Poncha Pass 3:35 PM
Engine 481 depart Poncha Pass 3:35 PM light for Salida
Extra 496 west depart Poncha Pass 3:45 PM
Villa Grove 10 minutes shovel down coal
Moffat 40 minutes pick up
Hooper 20 minutes pick up
Mosca 15 minutes pick up, includes 1 standard gauge car sheep
Arrive Alamosa 9:45 PM with 30 loads 41 empties
GUNNISON
Gunnison partly cloudy, calm
Crested Butte cloudy, calm, 3” new snow overnight
Big Mine idle, Buckley working
Crested Butte branch Train No. 347 and Train No. 348 with engine 474
Conductor Purciel
Engineer Kroll
Depart Gunnison 11:30 AM with 37 empties
Arrive Crested Butte 1:05 PM with 37 empties, 2 hours 30 minutes mine work
Depart Crested Butte 3:35 PM with 16 loads
Arrive Gunnison 5:05 PM with 16 loads
Gunnison switch engine 460 foreman Winters engineer Cowan
Gunnison extra 361 west with helper engine 360, called to go to Montrose
Conductor Ed Mahoney
Engine 361 Foxgruber
Engine 360 Myers
Depart Gunnison 4:30 PM with 11 loads 22 empties
12 empty double decks, Sapinero for storage
10 empty box Montrose
Sapinero 40 minutes set out and turn, turned back to Gunnison account slides between Crystal Creek and Cimmarron
Depart Sapinero 6:30 PM
Arrive Gunnison 8:50 PM
Memorandum reads: “6:10 PM section foreman Cimarron reports 1 snow slide 90 feet long 20 feet deep just east of Mile Post 328, another just west of this slide, 50 feet long 10 feet deep. Broderick and Royse notified at Gunnison.”
MONTROSE
Ouray branch extra 318
Conductor Arnold
Engineer Rusk
Depart Montrose 11:45 AM with 12 loads
1 mdse Ouray
2 coal Ouray
1 load (?)
1 load Aztec
1 salt Dolores
1 salt Durango
1 salt Aztec
1 load Dolores
2 poles Colona
1 mdse Ridgway
Colona 10 minutes spot loads
Mile Post 1 hour run to Ridgway for water
Arrive Ridgway 3:00 PM with 10 loads
Depart Ridgway 3:45 PM with 3 loads
Arrive Ouray 4:00 PM with 3 loads, 1 hour 10 minutes eat, switching, turn
Depart Ouray 5:10 PM with 1 load 2 empties
Ridgway 20 minutes set out and pick up
Arrive Montrose 8:10 PM with 3 loads 6 empties
DURANGO
Durango 4” snow, cloudy
Durango switch engine 271 foreman Gabbe engineer Basher
Jimmy
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/2012 04:01PM by Jimmy Blouch.
