Re: Cumbres Depot Photo

John Cole Wrote:
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> Is that a lantern on the top? Since there was no
> electricity up on CUmbres, I assume that it would
> have been an oil burner. Does that mean the agent
> had to crawl up the pole to service and light it?
> Must have been fun on a cold night in a snowstorm.


The more I think about it, the odder it seems to me that a Train Order board was ever installed on the section house.

It's not like there was much of a chance a train could get through Cumbres without stopping. All westward freight trains had to stop to turn up retainers. All eastward trains had to stop for an air test. The operator position appears to have been abolished before the passenger trains were eliminated.

About the only train that could conceivably pass through Cumbres without stopping would be a light engine or a passenger extra.

It makes about as much sense as tearing down the Cumbres station and leaving the one at Osier.

JAC