Re: Alamosa September 15 1965

Thanks Jimmy. I was over chasing the train on the west end, so I don't have to worry about all the confusion at Cumbres. And now I can reconstruct the somewhat simpler happenings between Durango and Juanita where we had to give up the chase. Certainly seems to have been a lot of MOW going on. A rather large fill was being replaced on the Farmington branch, the slip out at 446.02, and the spreader working on Cumbres. And the next day when the train came west out of Chama it had a big dozer on a flatcar at the head end of the consist. I'm guessing it was an unusually wet monsoon season causing a lot of runoff and moisture problems.

But speaking of the dozer, I wonder if this would have cleared the tunnels or if it was loaded west of the tunnels (westbound leaving Gato on September 16, 1965).





JBWX



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2017 10:52AM by John West.