Wednesday December 20, 1944
ALAMOSA
No. 115 with engine 478
Conductor Hurley
Engineer Coughlin (to Chama)
Depart Alamosa 7:45 AM with 6 cars (delay 7:30 AM - 7:45AM loading mail and express)
Antonito set out baggage 167
Arrive Cumbres 11:12 AM
Depart Cumbres 11:14 AM
Arrive Chama 11:55 AM
Depart Chama 12:01 PM (engineer Brice)
Arrive Gato 1:58 PM meet No. 116
Depart Gato 2:03 PM
Arrive Durango 4:45 PM
No. 116 with engine 476
Conductor Moore
Engineer Katschthaler (to Chama)
Depart Durango 11:15 AM with 5 cars
Arrive Gato 1:47 PM meet No. 115
Depart Gato 1:58 PM
Arrive Chama 4:00 PM
Depart Chama 4:05 PM (engineer Coughlin)
Arrive Cumbres 5:07 PM
Depart Cumbres 5:10 PM
Antonito pick up baggage 167
Arrive Alamosa 8:30 PM
Durango extra east with engine 481
Conductor Bruce
Engineer Connor
Depart Durango 11:59 AM with 17 loads 1 empty
Allison 15 minutes mdse and meet No. 1215
Arboles 25 minutes mdse and pick up
Gato 25 minutes eat and set out
Dulce 10 minutes mdse
Monero 20 minutes coal & water and fill
Arrive Chama 8:50 PM with 19 loads 1 empty
SALIDA
Monarch branch with engines 480 road and 494 helper
Conductor Rhodes
Engine 480 W Wilson
Engine 494 C Wilson
Depart Salida 8:25 AM with 43 empties
Engine 480 double Maysville Monarch with engine 494 helping 1st trip, engine 494 light return Salida 11:55 AM
Engine 480 depart Maysville 2:55 PM, east bound, with 45 loads 1 empty
Arrive Salida 4:05 PM
Salida extra west with engine 496 (Valley line)
Conductor Straitiff
Engineer Culliman
Depart Salida 1:15 PM with 7 empties, (6 empties for hay at Moffat)
Double Mears Jct Poncha Pass
Depart Poncha Pass 3:25 PM
Villa Grove 15 minutes water and lunch
Moffat 15 minutes set out and pick up
Hooper 25 minutes set out and pick up
Mosca 15 minutes pick up
Arrive Alamosa 8:00 PM with 12 loads 2 empties
Salida extra west with engines 499 road, 493 helper and 490 helper
Conductor Carling
Engine 499 Hyatt
Engine 493 Bovee
Engine 490 C Wilson
Depart Salida 4:05 PM with 2 loads 52 empties
41 empty coal Gunnison
10 empty box Gunnison
2 company cinders Gunnison
Arrive Marshall Pass 7:00 PM, pick up 11 B&B outfits, set out 5 gons (set out in order to reduce to 60 cars)
Engine 499 depart Marshall Pass 7:30 PM with 13 loads 47 empties
Arrive Gunnison 10:30 PM
Engine 493 depart Marshall Pass 7:40 PM light for Gunnison, arrive 11:25 PM
Engine 490 depart Marshall Pass 7:45 PM light for Salida, arrive 9:45 PM
GUNNISON
Crested Butte branch with engine 498
Conductor Anderson
Engineer Braswell
Depart Gunnison 11:15 AM with 2 loads 51 empties
MP 203 40 minutes unloading 2 cars cinders
Arrive Crested Butte 1:55 PM
Depart Crested Butte 4:00 PM with 50 loads 2 empties
50 cars coal
1 bad order gon for Gunnison
Arrive Gunnison 5:50 PM
MONTROSE
Ouray branch with engine 316
Conductor Gribben
Engineer Price
Depart Montrose 12:05 PM with 6 loads 13 empties
2 coal Ouray
5 empty box Ouray
1 powder Ophir
2 coal Silverton
1 coal Telluride
7 empty box Ridgway
Arrive Ridgway 2:45 PM, 15 minutes switching
Depart Ridgway 3:00 PM
Arrive Ouray 3:50 PM, 50 minutes switching
Depart Ouray 4:40 PM with 8 empties
Arrive Montrose 7:30 PM with 14 loads 10 empties
(Ridgway times not shown, probably where additional consist picked up)
DURANGO
Farmington branch with engine 375
Conductor Knight
Engineer Johnson
Depart Durango 1:45 PM with 8 loads 6 empties
Aztec 5 minutes pick up
Refinery 10 minutes switching
Arrive Farmington 4:50 PM, 1 hour 10 minutes switching
Depart Farmington 6:30 PM with 4 loads 1 empty
2 oil Alamosa
1 gas Durango
1 gas Dolores
Refinery 30 minutes switching and wait for oil loading
Arrive Durango 10:20 PM
Gunnison switch engine 340 with foreman Winters engineer H Gates
Durango switch engine 315 with foreman Rowe engineer House
Baldwin branch and Silverton branch no activity
Standard Gauge
Alamosa yard engineer (1 each shift) Riley, Todd, and Larimer
Creede branch with engine 1007 conductor Edmiston engineer Tozer
No. 115 and No. 116 conductor McCaughlin engineer Freeman
Extras east and west engine Alamosa - La Veta - Alamosa with engines 3410 road conductor Morgan, engineer Marsh, helper engine 1204 engineer Kearns
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