Earl Wrote:
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> On Dec. 28, 487 (C. Jack, J. Shawcroft) and 493 (R.
> Morgan, G. Cunningham) headed east for Alamosa,
> called at 8am. A west bound freight was headed to
> Chama, while over in Durango 488 and 484 were
> headed east. Carl & Jim somehow ended up back
> in Chama that night, but with the 493. 487 with
> Bob Morgan and Gayle Cunningham disappear.
> I assume they ended up going home to Alamosa.
> 498 came west from Alamosa with Lee Otteson
> and Wierick. A guess is 498 started east alone,
> 493 on the flanger train was turned in Antonito and
> doubled back to Chama helping 498. 493 had a
> plow 498 did not. How Carl and Jim got the short
> straw to go back to Chama is interesting.
>
> It gets more interesting in that the next train
> out of Chama is
:
>
> Extra East
> 493 Eng. C. Jack, Frm. J. Shawcroft
> 488 Eng. Lee Otteson, Frm. Weirick
>
Called for 3:30 am (!!)
>
> How the crews got rested would be interesting
> to find out
. . .
I wonder if that 3:30 might be a typo, Earl – and it was actually 8:30 – or at least a more reasonable 5:30 or 6:30 a.m.?
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> So, Olaf lucked out and caught the last operations
> on the narrow gauge for the winter of 1965-66.
Olaf and Jeff Stebbins palled around a lot with Ernie, and all three of them took hundreds of excellent photos of the last three or four years of freight operations between Alamosa and Durango –
In addition to his movies of the Last REAL Freight that are featured on the
Trains Magazine DVD, Olaf has three dozen still photos of an eastbound freight on November 9 & 10, 1967 and about 100 photos of the westbound "Mad Dash" of 05/28/68. IIRC he hasn't posted any of them yet
. . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2018 01:43PM by Russo Loco.
