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Running time :14 miles-45 minutes

July 17, 2004 08:46PM
Fritz ,just a guess but it looks like one of the Morgans . Jim Shawcroft , an East End engineer , said that light engines sometimes would get off the hill in 45 minutes or less ! I forget how they were paid then ,but probably by the mile so it was not unheard of to do up to three Cumbres turns ,then take the train to Alamosa ! They had the 16 hour law then .So some crews liked working Cumbres because money could be made , especially after they accrued over 100 miles .
The well-known engineer who told me that tale said once he himself brought an engine off the hill in 45 minutes ,when he had to drive to Santa Fe that afternoon . I mangaged to do it in 52 or 55 minutes . Later we were all told to take one hour and five minutes with light engines . A few enginemen who liked to highball would pull the old trick of radioing their departure a few minutes early ,or so I was told .
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John West July 16, 2004 09:33PM

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John West July 17, 2004 09:11AM

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Fritz Klinke July 17, 2004 10:03AM

Greathouse

John West July 17, 2004 07:54PM

Running time :14 miles-45 minutes

El Coke July 17, 2004 08:46PM

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Hoss The Wideload July 17, 2004 08:54PM

That's right . *NM*

El Coke July 18, 2004 12:25PM

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Earl July 18, 2004 02:08PM

Radios?

John West July 17, 2004 11:09PM

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