Re: Alamosa January 27 1945

Thanks for the details, Jerry. But it sure as heck sounds like a slow business if there were passengers on the train. As I understand it, the spreader wings on the flanger that's in Durango now -- is it OF? -- are operated by air from the cupola of the work caboose that runs behind it, while the flanger mechanism itself is operated from the locomotive cab. But the air mechanism for the wings is comparatively recent, if I understood what I was being told, and before that the wings had to be set by hand? On a Silverton run, that would be a lot of stopping and starting, wouldn't it?

Maybe folks just weren't in such a hurry back then.

-- Lawrence

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Lawrence Biemiller
Washington, D.C.