The date of an interesting trip

I believe it was September 15, 1965. It was an interesting trip. The Farmington branch was closed due to a soft fill being replaced just south of Durango, so all they had was one empty flat and some boxes of lumber from Weidmans's. They had tried to leave Durango the day before (stopping at Carbon Junction to shove a dragline on a flat car down the Farmington branch to the fill being replaced) but after heading toward Chama had been blocked by a slipout around where the hospital is now up the hill from Durango. So they backed to Durango, dropped their train, and pushed two drop gons of cinders to the slipout, and then returned to Durango. The next day they headed east again with their short train plus one more gon of cinders behind the tender to dump so the MOW guys could finish their work on the slip out. They set out the drop bottom gon at Falfa. Somewhere, I think Ignacio, they picked up a few high side gons. And later on they picked up some lumber loads at the mill just west of Juanita.

The engineer on the previous day that didn't get through was Bill Holt. So this may have been Holt again.

Can you also check to see if there was a westbound from Chama on September 16? I'm trying to fill another hole in my memory. And did the 483 run light from Durango to Gato to meet it on the 16th?

Thanks. Having some names to go with the pictures really helps add some life to the pictures.

JBWX



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/06/2017 11:29AM by John West.