Re: I wish they would haul Chromo Crude again . . . 
| October 22, 2017 05:13PM |
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drgw0579 Wrote:
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> What you don't know is the Lobato trestle
> was secretly strengthen{ed} after the fire,
> so that once the oil fields in Chama are re-
> activated, the C&TS will be hauling crude
> oil to the transload {facility} in Antonito.
No need to strengthen the Lobato trestle beyond what it was able to carry ~1939 'til 1964. More important to have eleven (11, count 'em, 11) tank cars available – and a K-37 – so that the maximum number of barrels of Chromo Crude* can be hauled on each train, as in this shot from fifty-five years ago:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
- Willie
* I'm talking about the real thing, not the cheap beer that Roosso has named in its (dis)honor . . .
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> What you don't know is the Lobato trestle
> was secretly strengthen{ed} after the fire,
> so that once the oil fields in Chama are re-
> activated, the C&TS will be hauling crude
> oil to the transload {facility} in Antonito.
No need to strengthen the Lobato trestle beyond what it was able to carry ~1939 'til 1964. More important to have eleven (11, count 'em, 11) tank cars available – and a K-37 – so that the maximum number of barrels of Chromo Crude* can be hauled on each train, as in this shot from fifty-five years ago:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
- Willie
* I'm talking about the real thing, not the cheap beer that Roosso has named in its (dis)honor . . .
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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