Re: First section?

John West Wrote:
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> I corrected the date of my picture, Kodak says it
> was July 1963. I have pix of the 478 and I
> believe the 473 (number obscured by the damn
> waterbag) so they must have run a second section.
> I don't have an ETT for 1963, but interestingly I
> found the April 1961 ETT did not show any regular
> trains on the Silverton branch. Seems odd they
> would have published another ETT by the time the
> Silverton would have started. They might have run
> them extra, but could they add them by bulletin?
> That would seem like an accident looking for a
> place to happen, at least theoretically. Need a
> rights of trains expert.
>
> JBWX

Here’s a thread from a few months ago where Jimmy nailed the date of the first time a Silverton second section was run, with photos here as well. [ngdiscussion.net] That’s what the ticket office folks told us, and we rode that first trip. I was only 11 tho, so it was great to get the date confirmed.

John, I had also remembered about the Silverton Casey Jones Rail car being in the Durango roundhouse. Did you happen to take a photo of that? We may have well been there on the same day, even tho that was 57 years ago (yikes!).

Cheers,
Ralph