Re: Less Desperate N.G. Adventures in late Winter, 1964
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A second Cumbres Turn was run on the afternoon of March 18, 1964 -
K-37 #493 was again the road engine, and it looks like K-36 #480 – probably also the helper earlier in the day – is again pushing at the rear:
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.
The following day, March 19, the same two engines again headed east from Chama — this time with a through freight though, instead of a Cumbres Turn. I'm not sure why Tom didn't get photos – perhaps because the road over Cumbres was closed and he had headed the long way around to Alamosa – but here are two of a similar train from just over a year earlier — March 16, 1963, with #483 on the point, and #491 shoving hard at the rear:
Photo copyright © 1963, 2018 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Photo copyright © 1963, 2018 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
At Cumbres #491 will be cut out of the train so that she can run light to Alamosa. #483 will assemble today's train, plus the cars from yesterday's two Cumbres Turns, into one long train (70 cars max) and haul them to Alamosa. See [ngdiscussion.net] for some Curmudgeonly Conjecturing as to how this was done — accompanied by a stunning photograph of a long eastbound freight passing the water tower at Los Pinos.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2021 12:14PM by Russo Loco.
K-37 #493 was again the road engine, and it looks like K-36 #480 – probably also the helper earlier in the day – is again pushing at the rear:
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.
The following day, March 19, the same two engines again headed east from Chama — this time with a through freight though, instead of a Cumbres Turn. I'm not sure why Tom didn't get photos – perhaps because the road over Cumbres was closed and he had headed the long way around to Alamosa – but here are two of a similar train from just over a year earlier — March 16, 1963, with #483 on the point, and #491 shoving hard at the rear:
Photo copyright © 1963, 2018 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Photo copyright © 1963, 2018 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
At Cumbres #491 will be cut out of the train so that she can run light to Alamosa. #483 will assemble today's train, plus the cars from yesterday's two Cumbres Turns, into one long train (70 cars max) and haul them to Alamosa. See [ngdiscussion.net] for some Curmudgeonly Conjecturing as to how this was done — accompanied by a stunning photograph of a long eastbound freight passing the water tower at Los Pinos.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2021 12:14PM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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