Re: Train 425

Train 425 was last operated on Aug. 30, 1941. The same crew worked Train 426 northbound on Sept. 1, 1941, the last scheduled run on the Chili Line.
There were trains that came into Santa Fe on the Chili Line after that but they were involved in the scraping operations.
The conductor was Henry Willis, engineer Charles Arnell, fireman Roy Brown and swing brakeman John Clark Legg. There was a more senior trainman than Legg on the crew but I am not sure who he was. My best bet is that it was William T. ``Red'' Lewis, who usually worked with Willis. Lewis vacated his conductor seniority but still had enough brakeman seniority to hold this plum assignment.
Both Arnell, and fellow Chili Line engineer Alexander H. Baskett had seniority over the Alamosa-Chama San Juan engineers of the time, George Ray and Charles Boyd, which shows how highly sought the Chili Line run was. Arnell even vacated his run on the San Juan in the late 1930s to come to the Chili Line.