Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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>
. . . Had we been able to stay a little longer, there
> would have been some interesting action on the
> narrow gauge. On Tuesday, February 17, 487 and
> 488 made a flanger - spreader run from Alamosa to
> Chama. On Wednesday, February 18, 487 and 488
> returned with the flanger - spreader outfit Chama to
> Alamosa while 480, 492, 484, and 493 started a 2-
> day freight cycle from Alamosa and Durango. The
> next few weeks were snowy, and operations includ-
> ed one Chama - Big Horn - Chama flanger-spreader
> turn and two Chama - Lava - Chama spreader turns.
There was still a fair amount of snow on the ground a month later, Olaf -
. . . And our friend Tom Gildersleeve was there to catch a good part of a typical three days of eastbound action, beginning on Saint Paddy's day with these two shots of an unusually short train for that era approaching and then departing Monero
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Photo copyright © 1964, 2014 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Photo copyright © 1964, 2014 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
On Wednesday morning, March 18, Tom caught these shots of the day's first Cumbres Turn at the upper end of The Narrows, just below "Lake Lobato"[/b]
Photo copyright © 1964, 2014 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Photo copyright © 1964, 2014 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Photo copyright © 1964, 2014 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
That's not a very long train, and there are no heavy tank cars full of GRAMP
S oil, so I'm guessing the boxcars at the rear are not empties but loads of lumber from the Weideman Mill in Durango.
(To be continued.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2021 08:04PM by Russo Loco.