Re: Snow Fighting at Windy Point - 05/13/73 - Roll #3 ... (?)

The End is in Sight -

The following are from what I now think is the 2nd 3rd roll of film I shot on May 12 & 13, 1973.
I didn't take notes describing the goings-on, but it appears that re-railing the locomotive and
tender must have required two or maybe even three attempts each, as otherwise some of my
other photos would seem to be out of sequence. Did all the attempts pictured in the previous
posts fail because the rails had spread, necessitating the re-gauging shown below? Only the
Phantom - and maybe Richard Braden - really knows ...

As noted in the previous posts, after the first try at re-railing the lead truck of #484's tender another attempt was made to get her trailing truck back on the rails, and then the tender truck was tackled again. Apparently the rails had been spread at some point, as the next few photos show the crew leveraging the track back into correct gauge. Note that the flanger also has at least one pair of wheels on the ground:


#484 must have been moved several feet during the re-railing attempts, as now there's no sign of the bulldozer's adjacent activity shown in one of the earlier posts, but the clearing sky indicates that this must have been taken on the second day of the "adventure":


After the track was repaired a pair of frogs was placed behind #484's tender, indicating that the rear truck must also have derailed. Note also the lack of snow between the rails, which is one of the main factors that convinced me that this was roll #3 and not roll #2:


Here's a good indication of just how deep the snow had drifted in this area, even though there are clear tracks just a few yards ahead:


This is the last photo on the roll; it looks like Jim was once again backing the engine to push the tender over the re-railing frogs:



Th' ... Th' ... That's All, Folks!

- Russo de los Locos



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 04/04/2011 12:13AM by Russo Loco.