December 08, 2016 09:20AM
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~Bob Shock said the speed limit on the Farmington branch was 20 mph.
~The Aztec ruins are about three miles from the depot. School buses were used when excursions brought passengers to Aztec.
~Andy Payne worked for the D&RGW from 1957 to the mid-1980s. He also worked on the Frisco and the Boston & Albany and maybe couple other railroads. He was the reason the Aug. 1968 freight train to Chama from Durango had only one engine. He laid off so he could take pictures of the train.
~Woody Ralston started railroading with the Midland Terminal, which ran from Colorado City to Cripple Creek. He later worked on the D&RGW out of Salida as a extra-boar fireman. This gave him both standard gauge and narrow gauge experience. When he was cut off from Salida he worked briefly out of Alamosa. He also worked the standard gauge through the Moffat Tunnel.
The last mixed trains on the Farmington branch were operated about 1940.
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