Re: 498 at Allison-mystery solved

Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> I just looked at the first disk in our "Last Steam
> Freights 1968" with movies my brother Randy shot,
> and my stills interspersed. There is a still of
> mine showing 498 with two cabooses heading out for
> Carbon Junction. Then there is a movie clip
> showing the front and end of the train at Arboles.
> So Earl was right that the 2 cabooses usually
> went through to Durango and back to Alamosa.
> Greg

No, I'm not saying that. The only reason there was a second caboose out of Durango was to return 0503 back to Alamosa where it was based. It came west on the "mad dash". Cabooses were almost sacred. They went from thier initial terminal to Chama and back. Only under unusual circumstances did they work through to the other end of the railroad.

There were times when a second caboose was on a train to accomodate special guests of the railroad.