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After some drops & pickups, and turning on the wye at the south end of town, #483 paused for a drink at the Farmington tank
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Note that she had apparently lost the carload of rail sometime earlier, as it's no longer in the consist
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The two carloads of wallboard are delivered at last
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. . . and then some pipe gons and idlers added to the string of empties headed to Durango
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Ernie took a few more photos of the train after it left Farmington — they're mostly similar to some of those posted earlier, but in very poor light.
This one of a train from Farmington approaching Carbon Junction for the very last time I just couldn't pass up
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Roosso
* The story I've heard (from more than one source) is that Rio Grande Motorways had attempted to deliver the wallboard by truck a few weeks before, but Farmington Lumber & Hardware refused the shipment as it was not by rail as they had specified. Motorways had to haul it back to Alamosa and load it on flatcars for proper delivery
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