Re: The conductor looks a bit like

John West Wrote:
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> Myron Henry to me. But hard to tell.
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> JBWX

I doubt Myron was the conductor, brakeman perhaps. I have a copy of of the Chama train register for the latter portion of 1950. I also have a copy of the Conductor's and Brakeman's seniority rosters for 1/1/50. The three regular conductors were Ed Morgan, Henry Hines and Stamey Edmiston. These three men were the highest seniority on the Alamosa Division. It seems they alternated in service. Train crews worked all the way from Alamosa to Durango. So it seems they worked from one end to the other, took a day off, then came home, took another day off, then went back out. One wonders where they actually called "home" as they spent just as much time at the other terminal.

Brakemen for the San Juan seems to be a much more complicated item. Several names are seen, of wide ranging seniority dates. Some promoted conductors kept their brakeman's seniority after promotion. One in particular, Frank Cox, was #18 on the Conductor's list, but #7 on the brakeman's list. He was a regular on the San Juan. Myron Henry was #3 on the brakeman's list, #14 on the conductor's, and could have had a regular braking job on the San Juan, but but didn't seem to want the regular job, preferring to be a freight conductor.

There are few names that show up often. One is "Winckel", does not show on the roster at all. Another regular is illegible. Henry Hines filled out the register for the trainmen and his scrawl is mostly illegible. On the bottom end of the scale I find several trips made by a J J Daniels, #37 on the brakeman's list with a hire date of 9/1/49, a year earlier.