Re: Rolling Locomotives

Yeah my dad made it out to Cheyenne for the first time in '68. He really went because it was supposedly UP's "Last run of the 844". Everyone went for that. That's where my dad met Dick Kindig.
I have seen my dad's slides of the yard in Cheyenne. The entire 48 stalls of the roundhouse were still there. Only 7 remain today, which are part of the Passenger Side of the roundhouse so the 3985 can't even fit in there. In '68, the 833, 838, 844, 3985, 5511 (2-10-2), 4023, 4005, and I think some others, were still sitting around the yard, without any new paint or anything. Except 844.
In 1968 my dad also took a bus tour with a friend of the narrow gauge, but they skipped Chama, I guess because of the high-way? He said when they first stopped in Alamosa, he saw smoke coming from the roundhouse. When they went inside, there were I think he said 4 K-36's hot. Although recently we looked at the slides, the engines were 476 or 473 I think, one of the K-28's, and 483 and some 490's. I can't remember exactly which ones. I imagine one of them was 492.
Then they went to Durango. I told him the other day that he had missed the coal tipple in Durango by about 8 months. He couldn't believe it. Isn't that right? Then he said that he had also just barely missed the Cheyenne Coal Chute too...too bad. That's real unfortunate.
Kevin