Re: Flanger spreader engine placement

John West Wrote:
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> I [was] writing a caption for this picture . . .
> . . . and when I got to engine placement west
> of Antonito I realized I did not know the answer.
> Was the second engine placed ahead of the caboose
> behind both the flanger and spreader, or did it go
> between the flanger and spreader?  And why?

Earl Wrote:
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> The second engine would be placed between
> the flanger and the spreader.


These Tom Gildersleeve photos make the arrangement of a snow train clear.

Arriving in Antonito on 03/20/63:

Photo Copyright © 1963, 2013 by Tom Gildersleeve.  All Rights Reserved.

The re-arranged train departing Antonito an hour or so later:

Photo Copyright © 1963, 2013 by Tom Gildersleeve.  All Rights Reserved.

There were some challenges – and changes – en route; the train didn't arrive in Chama until late in the evening on 03/21/63: *

Photo Copyright © 1963, 2013 by Tom Gildersleeve.  All Rights Reserved.

As to the "why" – and why the change (at Cumbres?) – I haven't the foggiest idea.

- Roosso

*   See Jimmy Blouch's post at [ngdiscussion.net], below, for 'The Rest of the Story.'



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/10/2017 01:02PM by Russo Loco.