Re: Ruinas de Monero

The pic above is the small trestle at the bottom right corner of Dave's map, or the next one east of that. It is taken from the shoulder on the highway. The locomotive coal tipple was west of the tank a 1/3 of a mile or so. In the first shot of the train going away, you can see a "gob pile" of coal with what looks like a structure on top of it. That structure is the locomotive coal tipple which is on the hillside behind the pile. The RR looped around to the left and then curved back along the hill in the background, past the tipple.

The tipple was a simple bin loaded by trucks.

When I moved to Chama in the early 1980's there was quite a bit of Monero still intact. I never wandered back to where John took his pics to see the remains of the coal loading facility as I was told that white folks weren't welcome there. The cable tramways were still intact off the hillside to the west, and there were piles of cable next to the highway where they had been cut to clear the road. There were still some towers in place. Carnita's (?) General Store still stood next to the track where the depot had been and the locomotive coal tipple was still there. Inside the loop of track where the coal pile was, a pair of falt bottom gon bodies sat. All that started getting cleaned up in the late 1980's and was all gone by the mid 1990's.