Re: Tank Car Haulage in the last two years of GRAMPS rail shipments
| January 30, 2023 04:01PM |
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John West Wrote:
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> My pictures of Chama to Alamosa trains mirrors
> Olaf's, the number of cars was quite irregular.
> The only "unit train" of tank cars up the hill that
> I have any knowledge of is the one photographed
> by Tom Gildersleeve in his well known winter pic-
> tures with the flanger and spreader on the rear
> of the tanks.
Since Tom rarely – if ever – posts here -
And since he provided me with hi-res .tif copies of nearly all of his narrow gauge slides a few years ago, I'll save all of you the trouble of digging through The Friends archives by posting just a few of his shots.
This first one shows what John refers to as a "unit train" of tank cars, narrow-gauge style. IIRC, 11 loads was the maximum for a pair of K-36s or '37s from Chama to Cumbres. Judging by the lighting, this shot from October 21, 1962, looks like an afternoon 'Cumbres Turn' :
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
The following spring Tom caught a flanger-spreader train returning east on March 14, 1963. Rather than waste all that power on a light train, eight cars of oil were added from Chama to Cumbres:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
SFAIK, the oil was left at the summit for a following freight, and the snow train cleared the sidings at Los Pinos, Osier, Toltec and Sublette on its way to Alamosa.
One week later he caught another flanger-spreader run arriving in Chama. Per Tom, the train was more than 24 hours late after fighting deep drifts and several derailments on its way west:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Returning east the following day, it again lightened the load of a following eastbound freight by hauling eight cars of GRAMPS oil as far as Cumbres:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2023 08:48PM by Russo Loco.
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> My pictures of Chama to Alamosa trains mirrors
> Olaf's, the number of cars was quite irregular.
> The only "unit train" of tank cars up the hill that
> I have any knowledge of is the one photographed
> by Tom Gildersleeve in his well known winter pic-
> tures with the flanger and spreader on the rear
> of the tanks.
Since Tom rarely – if ever – posts here -
And since he provided me with hi-res .tif copies of nearly all of his narrow gauge slides a few years ago, I'll save all of you the trouble of digging through The Friends archives by posting just a few of his shots.
This first one shows what John refers to as a "unit train" of tank cars, narrow-gauge style. IIRC, 11 loads was the maximum for a pair of K-36s or '37s from Chama to Cumbres. Judging by the lighting, this shot from October 21, 1962, looks like an afternoon 'Cumbres Turn' :
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
The following spring Tom caught a flanger-spreader train returning east on March 14, 1963. Rather than waste all that power on a light train, eight cars of oil were added from Chama to Cumbres:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
SFAIK, the oil was left at the summit for a following freight, and the snow train cleared the sidings at Los Pinos, Osier, Toltec and Sublette on its way to Alamosa.
One week later he caught another flanger-spreader run arriving in Chama. Per Tom, the train was more than 24 hours late after fighting deep drifts and several derailments on its way west:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Returning east the following day, it again lightened the load of a following eastbound freight by hauling eight cars of GRAMPS oil as far as Cumbres:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2023 08:48PM by Russo Loco.
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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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