December 16, 2010 09:36PM
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In around 1987 or so we planned to run OM for it's 100th birthday. As we didn't know exactly when OY was built or when it was first used, we chose to do this in March of 1989 (OM was build in 1889). Russ Fischer and I came up was a plan to plow to Cumbres in a day or so with 2 engines. We figured by March there would be something to plow up on the hill, without the heavy packed stuff to deal with. We also included a passenger train up the hill on the 2nd day that would follow OM out of Cumbres down toward Los Pinos.
We had been advised by some former Scenic emloyee to do some boiler work on OM. It seems the D&RGW never capped OM's stack or cleaned the smoke box out on OM all the years she sat in Chama. When initally inspected in 1974 it was found the bottom couple of rows of tubes were buried in soggy cinders in the smokebox. Upon cleaning out OM's front end, it was discovered that bottom row of flues had the ends of them rotted off into the flue sheet holes. The flues never leaked even under hydro test. WE undertook the job of pulling these flues out. I ground the seal welds off the tube beads in the firebox. The firebox was absolutely perfect. There was not one tool mark on the sheets, no seams tha showed recalking - nothing. I am convinced the tubes on OM are it's 1889 originals. NObody refules anything with out dinging of the flue sheet somewhere.
Unfortunately, Kyle's finances were not conducive to bankrolling this project if it was financial disaster. It was a case of "if you can't guarantee you will break even, don't do it". With that the project died. Russ left the next year, Dan Ranger a year ofter that, the whole idea was forgotten.
I don't recall if it was to be a paid or volunteer program, probably a bit of both. The problem became that major work was being done with paid staff every winter and in the days of only 3-4 engines serviceable, each one had some sort of project going on with it every winter. Asking some unemployed engineer (like me then) to do the same work a paid shop worker was doing, didn't go down well.
Personally, I think the day of the Winter Specials in Chama died back in 1978. Now there is way too much shop work keeping the mechanical dept busy. Putting and engine (or Rotary) in service then winterizing again is about 2 weeks of work. Money and manpower is better spent on other projects.
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