Re: Some answers and more questions

---We have a run in Sept 1964 with 492 and 484 WB with empty oil cans amongst other stuff. Then a day or two later there is a 3rd hill turn with 5 loaded oil tankers amongst 6 lumber cars, and 8 empty pipe cars. So, it appears oil was hauled out well into 1964(this was sept 1964).
After thinking about it a bit, I think it was 1964. That's when the refinery in Alamosa burned, right?
(7)New question. There is a train from Durango to Chama with lumber loads behind the engine. Was there also(must have been), a lumber place in or near Durango. I knew about the one in Chama, but not the Durango one. Which lumber place remained open the longest...Durango?
There was a thread here just a few days ago where the Durango sawmill was mentioned. Earl (I think) said it was where the Doubletree and the Holiday Inn are now.
(8) New Question. What was the date of the mid-june 1961 Illini Railroad Club excursion from Alamosa to Durango (?), with engine 476? I assume they went to Silverton, but some trips didn't. Our intrepid photographer chased it from Alamosa to the Continental Divide then waited at Navajo for a WB doubleheaded freight(499/494).
photoswest.org has a shot of 844 (pre-8444) hauling the return trip from Denver to Cheyenne on June 11, 1961. That probably means they left Alamosa going east on the 10th. Probably Alamosa-Durango June 8, Silverton and return June 9, Durango-Alamosa on the 10th.
JAC