Re: Speculating on a day trip west of Chama by rail.

Doug,
Forget it as there is no land that could become railroad again. All the land that the D&RG owned or ran on is now private land, and the Chama Land and Cattle Company land near Willow Creek has been sold to the Apache Indians which they added to their reservation. You can see at Gato what the Southern Ute think about the railroad. Most of the wye at Amargo is under US 84/64 highway as the road crosses the main just west of the east wye switch, covers the entire east leg of the wye and crosses the west leg of the wye and also the switch location of the two legs.

Jimmy's data was very useful and fits my brief description. The showing of the wye in the timetable at Lumberton must mean the D&RG had some operating right over the Rio Grande & Pagosa Springs RR, in return for the RG&PS using the station track of the D&RG to turn their passenger train.

Why would you build something new that could just drain customers away from riding up to Cumbres and Osier? I walked through Monero Canon the last day the tracks were still there and there are many places on the C&TS which would match and beat it, such as Phantom Canyon. Man! That would be stupid, even if it is nice country with a June sunset. By the way there is no coal being mined at Monero that could fire the Chama engines. I would thing that anyone on the D&S and the C&TS would fight against that project as it could cost some of them their jobs. Building a railroad for the Goose #5 out of Dolores, to Glencoe or Mancos, or Dolores up to the mesa on Al Rust’s switchbacks would be more scenic in Lost Canyon than this idea.