Re: Westbound, Cumbres to Cresco - 07/17/68
| July 17, 2018 06:02PM |
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Hello once more -
From his vantage point near the top of Windy Point, Ernie watched as helper #483 was uncoupled from the train, and then he quickly moved around to the northwest side to catch her solo descent of the 4% grade:
Photos copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Here she's crossing the old road and passing the ponds featured in Otto Perry's well-known photographs of the San Juan passenger train:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
#493 followed with her train shortly after; she's seen here near milepost 331 below Windy Point:
Photos copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
About a mile farther on the train passed the snow fences near the former location of the short siding at Coxo:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
This portrait of #493 and her train just below the siding at Cresco is the last one on the last roll of the day.
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Somewhat surprisingly, Ernie didn't send me any photos of the westbound train arriving in Chama on July 17, nor of the engines being serviced or wyed afterward. Meanwhile, according to his notes, #498 had picked up ten flats and two boxcars – all loaded with lumber – at the Weidman sawmill in Durango early that morning, added more than two dozen empties at Carbon Junction, and headed east, so maybe Ernie headed west late in the afternoon to catch #498 and her train coming into Chama from Durango . . .
(To be continued.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/2018 05:07PM by Russo Loco.
From his vantage point near the top of Windy Point, Ernie watched as helper #483 was uncoupled from the train, and then he quickly moved around to the northwest side to catch her solo descent of the 4% grade:
Photos copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Here she's crossing the old road and passing the ponds featured in Otto Perry's well-known photographs of the San Juan passenger train:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
#493 followed with her train shortly after; she's seen here near milepost 331 below Windy Point:
Photos copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
About a mile farther on the train passed the snow fences near the former location of the short siding at Coxo:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
This portrait of #493 and her train just below the siding at Cresco is the last one on the last roll of the day.
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Somewhat surprisingly, Ernie didn't send me any photos of the westbound train arriving in Chama on July 17, nor of the engines being serviced or wyed afterward. Meanwhile, according to his notes, #498 had picked up ten flats and two boxcars – all loaded with lumber – at the Weidman sawmill in Durango early that morning, added more than two dozen empties at Carbon Junction, and headed east, so maybe Ernie headed west late in the afternoon to catch #498 and her train coming into Chama from Durango . . .
(To be continued.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/2018 05:07PM by Russo Loco.
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