Re: Trestle Gulch and The Last Real Freight - 08/31/68.

Tomstp Wrote:
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> Did D&RGW send another engine to get the
> empty cars? It seems I remember they left a
> bunch of boxcars to be used as storage for a
> business but what about any other cars left
> there?


SFAIK, the only non-Silverton operations on the narrow gauge after August 31, 1968, were:
   1.  The filming of Butch & Sundance near Durango and the subsequent move of #473 (as U.P. #478) to Alamosa on October 9th and 10th, 1968
   2.  The filming of Good Guys & Bad Guys near Chama, for which #483 traveled from Durango to Chama & back, mid-September to mid-October.
   3.  The National Park Service inspection train, pulled by #483 from Durango to Chama on November 23 and Chama to Alamosa on November 24.
   4.  The "Hospital" move with #481 dead-in-train, the coaches used for NPS train, two or three carloads of engine parts and tools, and a couple of
        empties for additional braking, which was pulled to Chama on December 5 by #473 with #483 as helper.  #473 continued on to Durango with
        the train while #483 and one caboose returned to Alamosa as the last D&RGW move over Cumbres Pass on December 6, 1968.

SFAIK, any cars not sold to the C&TS in 1970 were scrapped wherever they were sitting as the lines from Chama to Durango and south to Farmington were torn up during 1970-71.

- Russ