Re: 58 years ago - 487 and 493 on a flanger and spreader run
| December 27, 2023 10:58PM |
493 and 483 worked the flanger & spreader outfit to Chama, and returned to Alamosa on January 26, 1966. This was the last flanger & spreader run operated by the Rio Grande. As I understand it, word came down from Denver to shut down the narrow gauge, and no freight train followed the flanger & spreader operation. The narrow gauge remained dormant until May 9 when 493 and 498 took a freight from Alamosa to Chama and met 484 coming from Durango.
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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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