Re: Pre San Juan Passenger service

Martyn J Chapman Wrote:
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> Can anyone tell me what type of passenger service
> operated between Alamosa and Durango before the
> San Juan came into service?

CRRM's 1975 reprint of the 1919 timetable shows the "San Juan and New Mexico Express" through service from Alamosa (7:00am) to Silverton (8:35pm). Eastward, the same service left Silverton at 6:20am and arrived at Alamosa at 8:10pm. The trains were scheduled to meet at Pagosa Junction, where the train from Pagosa Springs would be waiting.

Equipment would have been the typical non-vestibule, coal-stove and Pintsch-lit coaches.

I've never seen the date that the service was cut back to Durango. It might have been during the 1922 reorganization.

Beebe makes reference to a much grander style of service prior to the Silver Panic of 1893, but I think I would want to see some solid evidence

JAC