Re: Fifty years ago today on the C&TS, June 26, 1971 -- Part 2
| June 26, 2021 08:06AM |
Passing through Coxo, the remains of the siding are easy to see, and 484 is getting coaled for the last bit of 4% up to the summit around Windy Point.
Going around the hairpin up from Coxo someone is riding the roof of #205 and taking a photo looking back downgrade, he does not seem to be in railroader work garb. Car #200 is on the left, and the difference in window height of the prototype is easy to see.
Looking down from Windy Point toward the Coxo snow fence, it looks like 484 has sparked a small fire.
At the top, 484’s tank has been filled from the standpipe and pulled ahead to let everyone off. The plywood over the windows of the section house is gone.
More signs of decay: remains of the snow fences are visible in this B&W taken at Tanglefoot, and milepost 330 has fallen down on the fill.
Part 3 is next...
Going around the hairpin up from Coxo someone is riding the roof of #205 and taking a photo looking back downgrade, he does not seem to be in railroader work garb. Car #200 is on the left, and the difference in window height of the prototype is easy to see.
Looking down from Windy Point toward the Coxo snow fence, it looks like 484 has sparked a small fire.
At the top, 484’s tank has been filled from the standpipe and pulled ahead to let everyone off. The plywood over the windows of the section house is gone.
More signs of decay: remains of the snow fences are visible in this B&W taken at Tanglefoot, and milepost 330 has fallen down on the fill.
Part 3 is next...
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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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