Valley Line Doings

The conductor who most likely bid on the Salida-Alamosa passenger train was George Daniel ``Badass'' Hallock rather than his younger brother Ray. G.D. Hallock was hired as a brakeman on 7-7-1889 and promoted to conductor on10-10-1897. He got his named because of a shootout with some outlaws while living in Iowa. He was No. 7 in seniority in the narrow gauge lines in 1930. He was born in 1865 and died in 1941.
Ray Hallock was the conductor on the Mears Junction runaway on Aug. 6, 1935.
David E. Goodenough was a conductor on the Salida-Alamosa passenger run at the time of this publication. His brakeman's date was 11-27-1887 and his conductor's date was 3-17-1890. He was born in 1864 and died in 1946. He was No. 5 in seniority. Both G.D. Hallock and Goodenough were off the railroad by 1940. The train itself was gone in the 1920s.
The reprint of Third Division TimeTable 100 (March 28, 1920) showed Train 317 leaving Salida at 4:10 p.m. arriving in Alamosa at 8:20 p.m. The return trip left Alamosa at 7:50 a.m., arriving in Salida at 12:05 p.m. The Salida-bound train was 318.