Re: #476 at Chama sand tower
| June 22, 2022 12:30PM |
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J.B.Bane Wrote:
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> . . . Many fine photos have been composed
> with engines taking water, and occasionally
> at the coal chute, but filling the sand domes
> seems to be less common.
That does seem to be the case, J. B. -
One of the few such shots that I remember seeing the past several years is this one by Ernie Robart of #476 in Chama on 05/28/68:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
She had been the road engine out of Alamosa on the so-called 'Mad Dash' one-day run-through to Durango, but apparently there was a problem with her fire, as Ernie also got this shot of her parked over the ash pit a few minutes earlier:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
While #476 was having her fire cleaned and water, fuel & sand replenished #478 took over as road engine and headed west. #476 caught up to her train a mile or two short of Gato, and became the helper from there to the top of the hill at Arboles.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> . . . Many fine photos have been composed
> with engines taking water, and occasionally
> at the coal chute, but filling the sand domes
> seems to be less common.
That does seem to be the case, J. B. -
One of the few such shots that I remember seeing the past several years is this one by Ernie Robart of #476 in Chama on 05/28/68:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
She had been the road engine out of Alamosa on the so-called 'Mad Dash' one-day run-through to Durango, but apparently there was a problem with her fire, as Ernie also got this shot of her parked over the ash pit a few minutes earlier:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
While #476 was having her fire cleaned and water, fuel & sand replenished #478 took over as road engine and headed west. #476 caught up to her train a mile or two short of Gato, and became the helper from there to the top of the hill at Arboles.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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