Re: 480 Photo

hank Wrote:
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> OK, one more time
>
> From the end of WWII* until the end of 1950 the
> 36's were used almost entirely Durango-Alamosa and
> the 37's were used Salida-Gunnison and the Crested
> Butte, Monarch and Alamosa (Valley Line) branches.
> In late 1950 the 37's were moved to Alamosa and 8
> of the 36's were sent to Salida (480-483, 485-87 &
> 489) just before the Valley Line was abandoned.
> 486 & 487 were shipped back to Salida when
> Marshall Pass traffic tanked (fall of '52), 485
> took a fall in Nov. of '53 and the rest were
> shipped back to Alamosa in '56 when the Monarch
> branch was standard gauged.
>
> hank
>
> *up till late '32/early '33 it was mostly the
> other way round, from there on the pattern was as
> above, with the occasional 36 coming north when
> traffic was heavy (fall stock rushes, for ex) up
> thru WWII. After the war traffic dropped off so
> much this was no longer required.
Hank:

You have your dates a bit wrong. The K37s were moved to Salida in 1933 and stayed there until 1950. They were needed on Marshall Pass for the coal traffic.

Jerry Day