UTLX trucks coming home (Pic)

The Friends of the C&TS has a three year project that is in its second year to help the Alder Gulch operation in Montana stabilize narrow gauge car bodies and also move standard gauge equipment on site. Previous threads have shown some of the work that up to 20 person Friends teams have accomplished in the past two years.

This week the “payoff” for all this hard work comes back to Chama in the form of narrow frame UTLX tank car trucks. Amazingly they are still lettered with UTLX markings and will be reunited with the UTLX narrow frame tanks which are currently riding on ASF cast trucks (applied by the WP&Y). The two UTLX (Gramps) frameless tank cars currently undergoing restoration at the Friends Antonito CRF will then get the ASF trucks along with the 5900 series long stock car also undergoing restoration.


Hats off to the Friends crews and Alder Gulch for working cooperatively to make this swap possible.

Rod

Removing the last track panel

Standard gauge cars in final position

UTLX trucks being loaded for trip back to Chama




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2010 03:20PM by rod.