Re: Way Back When - west of Sublette

guymonmd Wrote:
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> In that shot, I see loco's 483 and 484. I thought
> that by 1968, it was mostly the k-37's pulling
> trains. Do you know what date the shot was taken?


That was the very last revenue freight from Alamosa to Farmington -

Which ran on Wednesday, August 28, 1968, from Alamosa to Chama, where #498 arrived from Durango that evening with 17 loads of lumber and several empties.  On August 29 - with #484 as rear helper as far as Cumbres - #498 pulled the last revenue freight from Chama to Alamosa, stopping at Toltec Siding to pick up a flatcar carrying a bulldozer and a boxcar of tools and supplies.  #483 pulled the freight from Chama to Durango on the 29th, and on August 31 pulled the last train from Durango to Farmington and return.

Greg is right - I have posted that photo too many times, but it's one of my lifetime favorites and seemed relevant to the trees & brush discussion.   (I would have just posted a link, but the current NGDF search capability - unlike the previous version - doesn't pick up photo filenames embedded in attachments, and I couldn't remember enough of the context to find any of the previous postings easily.)

- Gramps



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