Re: San Juan arrivals & departures - Alamosa in 1950 and before

Earl Wrote:
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> . . . The other item: Although there was a switch
> to the west that allowed trains on the #1 track
> to head south, it was usually lined straight for
> trains to head for the Creede Branch.  All the
> tracks south of the #1 track curved south and
> tied into the mainline for Antonito and Chama,
> so trains on the #1 track went west to Creede,
> trains on the #2 track went to Chama.


Thank You for the details, Earl -

See Joe Hereford's map of the Alamosa yard at [ngdiscussion.net].  There's a slight discrepancy in that the map shows that the #2 and #3 tracks were tied into the main line a fair way east of the curve – rather than rounding the curve and heading south to La Jara and Antonito – a difference that this photo of the very last n.g. train departing Alamosa seems to confirm:

Photo copyright 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

But 1968 is many years after the last San Juan headed west on Track #2, so it's quite possible that the yard trackage had been re-arranged a bit sometime between 1950 and when Ernie took the above photo on 12/05/68.

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/03/2020 09:19AM by Russo Loco.