Re: C&TS - 42 Years Ago. July, 1976

The next morning we got up early and had breakfast down the street at Kelly's Café before heading down to the yard the watch the happenings. The crews got up even earlier and were out and about with the engines by 700am. Back then there was very little in the way of a shop department. The road crews got the engines out, and hostled their own engines. Today's crew would be Rich Braden and John Coker on 484, while Mark Yeamans and John Oldberg ran 483.


By the time we got down there, 483 had come out of the round house, had gone to the north end and come back to the coal tipple to top off the coal pile.


..then back for some sand.


483 then went back around to get in behind the 484 which had headed toward the ashpit. On the right you can see the beginnings of what was to become caboose 05635 being rebuilt from the stock car of the same number.


483 shows off her BLW-inspired tender lettering



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2018 11:55AM by Earl.