Re: Refrigerated shipments from south of Alamosa

rehunn Wrote:
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> Joking aside about the Hooper watermelons,
> that was still one of the prime produce loading
> areas, the other being just South of the Alamosa
> wye.  Both these most likely were served solely
> by the standard gauge after the mid-fifties.


Well, Rich -

There was at least one shipper south of the depot in La Jara who shipped a lot of reefer loads at least into the early sixties.  The reefers themselves were standard gauge, but the motive power that moved them between Alamosa and the shipper was often narrow gauge – see [ngdiscussion.net].

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/13/2017 06:35PM by Russo Loco.