Re: ANY FURTHER UPDATES ON#489?

chris king Wrote:
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> One of my greatest memories of working in Chama
> was hostling with #463.The way it worked out the
> #463 was at the front of the lineup one evening
> and #484 was dead over the inspection pit, after
> cleaning the #463's fire we decided that #484 was
> going to be put on the drop pit track to cool off
> #488,#489,were in front of #484 and #497 was on
> the drop pit track outside.The only one cold was
> #484 the only one that had air up was #463.So what
> we did was tie on to #497 pull forward of the
> switch,back up tie on to #489 and then #488 and
> then #484 laying sand as I did so. Those FIVE
> engines didn't want to move at first but slowly
> and sureley the #463 dug in and moved four BIG
> K-'s without missing a beat.There was a friends
> work session in progress at the time and wow did
> that stack talk draw a crowd.John Bush even called
> to see why we were making so much noise but it was
> neccesary and was the least amount of moves!

Whoa....man wish Roger was taking his pictures back then, because that would be one hell of a shot.