Re: Links to "Mad Dash" and #473 pics

Sawyer463 Wrote:
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> Gotta love the "mad dash"; to me it was almost
> as if the crews of the two K-28s & their engines
> wanted to prove they were still game, could still
> run the schedule of the San Juan, at least one
> more time before the curtain call.  What a way
> to go out.


> Earl Replied:
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> Hate to burst your bubble here, but it took that
> train over 18 hours to get from Alamosa to Du-
> rango, whereas the San Juan did it in 9 hours
> or so ... The track was getting pretty rough then,
> and the last thing you want to do is try to run a
> loaded freight train over rough track too fast.
>
> MY guess as to why they ran the train all in one
> day is they had no eastbound traffic to run from
> Durango, and they wanted the engines over in
> Durango ASAP {for use on} the Silverton Train ...
> #473 sat out 1968 as the spare engine and went
> east as light power after the Butch Cassidy flick
> was done in Oct 68.


Earl, Sawyer et al -

John West has posted three of his "Mad Dash" photos on his site at [www.lifewastedchasingtrains.com], [www.lifewastedchasingtrains.com] and
[www.lifewastedchasingtrains.com].

Ernie Robart caught #473 in masquerading in movie makeup as #478 in Durango and Chama later that year - see [ngdiscussion.net].

- Rússo