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Charlie McCandless

May 22, 2006 03:15PM

The picture of running steam from the 487 to the 488 reminded me of a conversation I had with Woody Ralston, one-time Midland Terminal hostler. I asked him if they used a steam assist to help gete engines fired up.
``No,'' he said. ''We were a poor railroad.'' Woody took six hours to fire up an engine at the Colorado City roundhouse, starting with a wood fire. He would get pressure in about an hour.''

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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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