Wednesday January 16, 1935
ALAMOSA
A lot of entries pertaining to the weather on Cumbres during the previous night and through out the day. In general continued snowing hard, strong wind, drifting very bad, at one point operator reported “can’t see a thing outside depot”. A couple times the wind died down but would start up again.
At 3:35 PM “try clear up, wind down some, getting cold, 17 degrees”.
When dispatcher’s sheet was started for Jan 16 the following memorandum was made:
“24 cars cab on main track between switches Los Pinos not protected by flag, also Ed Morgan’s cab and flanger 2 engs No. 115’s engine west of depot Cumbres and No.115 train east of east switch Cumbres and Hurley’s eng & 9 cars behind No. 115s train Cumbres with out flag protection, all stuck in snow, dispr protect these trains account no flag protection.”
Later notation reads: Hurley on phone 2:45 PM, says been down to his nine cars, they on fill and not snowed up, Wellington drained engine 484, everything except boiler trying to keep it alive until rotary gets there.”
Alamosa extra 483 west with helper engine 476, rotary OY
Conductor Skirvin
Engine 483 Holly
Engine 476 Hurley
Rotary OY Boyd
Pilot Coughlin
Depart Alamosa 2:20 PM
Depart Antonito 4:45 PM
Arrive Cumbres 11:30 AM (Jan 17)
Depart Cumbres 1:00 PM (Jan 17)
Arrive Chama 6:30 PM (Jan 17)
With the exception of one notation on sheet for Jan 17 no details shown for rotary operations between Osier and Cumbres. Notation reads: “2:08 AM ? on phone Cumbres says arrived behind 9 cars & eng 484, Hurley’s head end east of Cumbres at 1:30 AM Eng 476 start back with 9 cars and engine 484 at 3:10 AM.”
(I would imagine at some point they would have stopped for rest period, though this is not reported)
For Cumbres to Chama conductor’s delay report shows “delayed between Cumbres and Chama 3 hours acct wet snow freezing on hood and wheel blocking them necessary to stop and throw out a great many times.”
Alamosa No. 115 stub with engine 475
Conductor Pollard
Engineer Hopper
Depart Alamosa 10:45 AM with 4 cars
Arrive Antonito 11:55 AM
Return to Alamosa as No. 116
Depart Antonito 6:05 PM with 6 cars
Arrive Alamosa 7:15 PM
Durango No. 116 stub with engine 472
Conductor Hines
Engineer House
Depart Durango 11:15 AM with 4 cars
Arrive Chama 4:05 PM
Return to Durango as No. 115 with engine 472
Conductor Hines
Engineer Fitzer
Depart Chama 4:30 PM
Arrive Durango 9:30 PM
Santa Fe branch
Train No. 425 with engine 473
Conductor Willis
Engineer Caldwell
Depart Antonito 12:40 PM with 5 loads 5 empties
1 hay Santa Fe
1 company coal Santa fe
1 company ?
62
306
5 empty double decks Servelita
Arrive Santa Fe 7:30 PM with 4 loads
Train No. 416 with engine 478
Conductor Pheney
Engineer Thompson
Depart Santa Fe 9:30 AM with 3 loads 4 empties
1 mdse
63
284
4 empty box
Arrive Antonito 5:30 PM with 3 loads 5 empties
SALIDA
No. 315 with engine 479 (to Gunnison)
Conductor Perkins
Engineer Saunders (to Gunnison)
Swing Hillis
Depart Salida 7:15 AM with 6 cars
Arrive Marshall Pass 9:05 AM
Depart Marshall Pass 9:07 AM
Arrive Gunnison 11:05 AM
Depart Gunnison 11:25 AM, engine 344, engineer Knoll, with 3 cars
Arrive Montrose 2:45 PM
No. 316 with engine 344 (to Gunnison)
Conductor Sloan
Engineer Knoll (to Gunnison)
Depart Montrose 5:45 PM 4 cars
Arrive Gunnison 9:45 PM
Depart Gunnison 10:05 PM, engine 479, engineer Saunders, 6 cars swing Hillis
Arrive Sargent 11:15 PM, Sargent helper engine 494 on, engineer Shewalter
Depart Sargent 11:20 PM
Marshall Pass times not shown for No. 316
Engine 494 depart Marshall Pass 12:40 AM light for Sargent
No. 316 arrive Salida 1:35 AM
No. 316 delayed:
Montrose - Cerro Summit 15 minutes, 4 cars
Kezar 10 minutes let extra west by
Gunnison 20 minutes eat
Sargent 5 minutes cut in helper
Marshall Pass 5 minutes cut out helper
(Sloan)
(Reason for late Montrose departure not shown, may have been due to waiting for Ouray train which ended up not making connection anyway)
Monarch branch with engine 480
Conductor Sandberg
Engineer Turrett (?)
Depart Salida 5:10 AM with 1 load 14 empties, flanger
Arrive Monarch 8:00 AM with 1 load 13 empties
Depart Monarch 1:00 PM with 17 loads
Arrive 3:30 PM with 17 loads, flanger
Salida extra 496 west, valley line
Conductor Carlin
Engineer Crylic
Depart Salida 9:55 AM with 3 loads 8 empties
From 11:20 AM to 1:55 PM doubling 2 times Poncha Pass
Arrive Alamosa 6:45 PM with 16 loads 7 empties
GUNNISON
Crested Butte branch (Butte spelling corrected 1-17-11)
No work train called Gunnison account weather, wind blowing hard
Gunnison extra 360 west with helper engine 361
Conductor Ed Mahoney
Engine 360 Myers
Engine 361 H Gates
Engine 361 depart Gunnison 7:25 AM light, behind extra 360 west
Depart Gunnison 7:15 AM with 17 loads 1 empty
1 mdse Montrose
6 coal Montrose
1 coal Telluride
4 pipe Placerville
1 tank (appears to be empty for Farmington Refinery)
4 props Bowie
1 company coal Ouray
Kezar 20 minutes switching pick up and placing on rear of train 11 B&B outfits, 35 minutes No. 316
Crystal Creek 15 minutes cut helper in
Cimarron flange, clean switches, set out 11 B&B outfits, eat
Double Cimarron to Cerro Summit, loads and empties for each trip not shown
Arrive 6:10 PM with 15 loads 1 empty
Engine 361 also to Montrose, times not shown
MONTROSE
Ouray branch
Train No. 354 with engine 342
Conductor Miller
Engineer Rush
Ouray delayed about 6 hours account derailed engine 342.
Run light engine from Montrose to Ouray
Montrose extra 347 west, light engine
Engineer Price
Depart Montrose 2:00 PM
Arrive Ouray 4:20 PM
Got engine 342 rerailed at 4:30 PM
Depart Ouray 4:45 PM light
Arrive Montrose6:40 PM
Train No. 354 depart Ouray 5:00 PM with 2 coaches
Arrive Montrose 7:40 PM
Train No. 353 with engine 342
Conductor Miller
Engineer Rush
Depart Montrose 8:25 PM with 2 coaches
Arrive Ouray 10:50 PM
DURANGO
Pagosa Springs branch
Train No. 482 with engine 340
Conductor Edmiston
Engineer Voigt
Depart Pagosa Springs 9:35 AM with 2 cars
Arrive Pagosa Jct 12:20 PM
Train No. 481 with engine 340
Same crew
Depart Pagosa Jct 2:10 PM with 2 loads 2 empties
Arrive Pagosa Springs 5:25 PM
Silverton branch
Extra 459 east
Conductor Fry
Engineer Katschthaler
Silverton 15 minutes check engine and orders, 30 minutes switching, 30 minutes water, 4 hour 50 minutes
shoveling and picking ice out of yard, MP 494 ½ 3 hours 25 minutes clear slide, 15 feet
Return to Silverton 4:00 PM, saw several slides ahead, did not go very far down, tied up on 14 hour basis
Farmington branch with engine 375 with derrick 02
(the derrick has been part of the work train the past few days, I failed to include as part of post)
Conductor Edmiston
Engineer Klahn
Work between Farmington and Aztec with B&B gang at bridge 485.58
Tied up Farmington
Durango switch engine 302 with foreman Gabbe engineer Basher
Jimmy
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2011 07:49PM by Jimmy Blouch.
