Jimmy Blouch Wrote:
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> Friday December 20 1940
>
> MONTROSE
>
> Ouray branch extra 464, Ridgway turn
> Conductor Anderson
> Engineer H Gates
>
> Depart Montrose 11:15 AM with 5 loads 10 empties
> 2 coal Rico
> 2 coal Telluride
> 1 powder Telluride ?
> 10 empty box
> Arrive Ridgway 12:45 PM with 5 loads 10 empties,
> wait until 4:30 PM for RGS connection, connection
> arrive 4:25 PM
>
Get Civilian Conservation Corp train from RGS, no
> other detail shown
> Depart Ridgway 4:30 PM with 8 loads 1 empty
> Arrive Montrose 6:00 PM with 8 loads 1 empty
>
> Ouray branch extra 318, Ouray turn
> Conductor Collett
> Engineer Price
>
> Depart Montrose 1:30 PM with 5 loads 3empties
> 1 coal Ouray
> 1 merchandise
> 3 coal Ridgway
> 1 empty tank
> 1 empty ore box
> Ridgway 15 minutes switching
> Arrive Ouray 4:10 PM with 2 loads 1 empty, 20
> minutes station switching
Depart Ouray 4:30 PM with 1 empty
> Arrive Montrose 6:20 PM with caboose
>
Monday December 16 1940
MONTROSE
Ouray branch extra 315, Ouray turn
Conductor Collett
Engineer Price
Depart Montrose 12:20 PM with 6 loads 7 empties
3 coal Telluride
1 gas Dolores
1 coal Ouray
1 coal Ridgway
1 second hand coach 297
5 empty box
1 empty tank Farmington
Caboose
Arrive Ridgway 3:15 PM with 6 loads 7 empties, 40 minutes station switching and eat
Depart Ridgway 3:55 PM with 1 load 1 empty
Arrive Ouray 4:35 PM with 1 load 1 empty, 35 minutes station switching
Depart Ouray 5:10 PM with 2 loads 1 empty
Arrive Ridgway 5:45 PM with 2 loads 1 empty, 10 minutes switching
Depart Ridgway 5:55 PM with 16 loads 2 empties
Arrive Montrose 7:15 PM with 16 loads 2 empties
Jimmy:
Why did they have to run two trains to Ridgway? It seems like X318 would have been able to handle 10 loads and 13 empties ( for the two combined train loads going to Ridgway) as she was good for 460 tons Montrose to Ridgway. Were the 8 loads that X 464 was hauling back to Montrose the CCC special off the RGS thus requiring the extra train? It seems to have terminated at Montrose as you don’t show any CCC train moving beyond Montrose but perhaps they transferred to standard gauge at that point. I am still trying to figure out where the passenger cars came from if this was a CCC special. You show two dead head coaches # 302/ 304 moved to Durango on the 19th and then back out on the San Juan on Friday Dec 20th but nothing equivalent on the North end of the RGS at Ridgway other than the "second hand coach #297" moved on the 16th. Perhaps the 8 loads were CCC equipment moving but again why couldn’t the X 318 have handled it since it was only 20 minutes behind the X464 and now running as a caboose hop?
Rod
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/2012 06:37PM by rod.
