Re: C&TS 1990s Part 4 - One last Question . . .

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Seems I missed The Longest Train(s) of 1996 by
> just a couple of days, Earl -
>
> Or maybe by a full week - Sept. 21 to Sept. 28 -
> depending on when I caught #497 at Hangman's and
> Los Pinos.  As noted above, #497 pulled #2
> from Chama to Osier and #4 from Osier to Antonito
> on Sept. 14.  Do your records show which day
> she returned to Chama westbound - 09/15 or 09/16 -
> in order to join #463 on the charter to Big Horn
> on 09/17?
>
> Thank You for putting up with all my questions and
> the detailed answers you have provided, and thanks
> in advance for settling this one last question
> about the sequence of events during my 1996 visit.


I don't have any info on that other than if 497 went east on 9/14/96, she would have returned west the next day as engines did not lay over in Antonito. It was probably set up to have 497 make a round to trip to Antonito on the 14-15, then get a day in the shop on the 16th to do the Big Horn Turn on the 17th.

From 1991 onward, we kept a daily dispatcher's sheet of the days operations, along with a dispatcher (of some sort) on duty. The railroad was required to keep all these sheets on file for 5 years. I kept all of them in a file cabinet until I left in 1998. Where they ended up, I do not know. They should be given to the FOCTS to archive once they are over 5 years old. They would be a good source of this information. My timebooks only show what I was doing on any particular day