Re: Farmington

dave2-8-0 Wrote:
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> In the first photo, your looking to the SW. In
> the very bottom right runs a little bit of "Main
> St.". The next over street is "Broadway" The
> stack of "Downtown" buildings still stand. If you
> follow the tracks past the water tower and the
> depot, up at the top to the left of the rail line
> just as it goes out of the frame, I believe are
> the stock pens. I have not ben able to find a
> decent photo of them yet. And just off of the top
> would be the start of the "WYE". This photo
> appears to have been shot in the 50's
>
>
> The Aerial view (second photo) is of the ElPaso
> pipe yard. The view is looking to the East. The
> yard is still in use today ( not by ElPaso ).
> Today the areas that are not in use in the 1956
> photo, are actually in use today. Though there
> isn't that much pipe on the ground right now.
> This view, my friends is the ultimate reason that
> we have the D&S and the C&T today. The Farmington
> pipe boom saved all the K's that we so dearly
> love. Otherwise the abandonment would have
> happened much much earlier, And there may not of
> been the "Friends" to save the C&T and the
> tourists to keep the D&S running.


You got that right....... We have a BIG thank you to send to El Paso Natural Gas......

Without them the entire narrow gauge would have been gone by the mid-1950's



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/08/2016 08:54PM by Earl.