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Locomotive 488 at Cumbres Pass....... Taken
from the running boards of Diesel 19 just down the tracks about 30
yards away from 488. |
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Two Beautiful K-36's, 481 as
the road Locomotive and 486 sit on the wye in Silverton, Colorado.
This Beautiful Photograph was taken by Durango & Silverton Engineer
Joe Dailey, Joe is another great photographer and I am extremely
honored he decided to share these photos with the website and all of
you out there in internet land.. Thank you Joe.
Thank You, Thank You!!!!
Its amazing, the last two
photos show 488, 481 and 486 still in glorious service in the year
2005.. Joe probably agrees with me.... Joe and I, the next
generation of steam railroaders are extremely honored to be running
these wonderful machines, Thank you for all your support to help us
keep these Two Beautiful Railroads... the C&T and D&S running at
full steam!!! |
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Now I understand this young
Gentleman is the Antonito Kid, Good name.. now I also understand his
sister standing next to him has been referred to as the "Narrow
Gauge Princess" well I sure the Heck am not going to Argue with
that, not at all.... from hence forth Therese is no longer Therese,
and we all know Railroaders have nicknames so everybody must until
further notice refer to her as the "Narrow Gauge Princess" that she
is... Therese you and your brother have been nicknamed!!! Now I
don't want anybody to forgot, make a note somewhere so you won't
forget... |
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A few more views of 487 hauling passenger
cars and Cook Car 053 back to Antonito for the Winter.....
Locomotive 487 and the train has stopped at
Sublette, New Mexico for water... |
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Looking over the coal, the train rolls around the
big curve at Whiplash, we have just passed Milepost 297 headed
south, but east according to railroad directions. |
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My view thru the Fireman's door on 487,
approaching Lava Tank. |
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Another view over the Coal.... |
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I am on Colorado Highway 160
just east of Alamosa, you are looking at what's left of the mainline
from Alamosa to Villa Grove and over Poncha Pass to Salida. This is
the remains of the Wye in Alamosa, Colorado. You can see a third
rail still intact at the end of the line. Although the line was
Narrow Gauge, it was in fact eventually dual-gauged up to Hooper,
Colorado to haul standard Gauge cars to the farming community. The
D&RGW actually converted the Narrow Gauge to Three rail for 19 miles
north of Alamosa to Hooper in 1930 for Agricultural and Livestock
Shipments consigned to points beyond the Third Rail. |
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Another look at after season operations on
the Cumbres & Toltec. Diesel
19 poses at Cumbres Station.. |
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Diesel 19 poses at the Water Stand Pipe. |
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Another view of Diesel 19 and Cumbres Station. |
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Now we have backed up on the mainline to the east
side of the Highway crossing.. can't see her yet, but 488's steam is
rising over the mountain. |
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Her she comes, 488 with the last train of the
season up Cumbres. |
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There's the Headlight of 488, it was pretty
cool... this little meet at Cumbres stopped a lot of traffic on
Highway 17. |
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We backed Diesel 19 down past the switch to the
wye to let 488 pull forward and back into the wye... after which we
will pull forward and take control of the train. |
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Locomotive 488 at Cumbres, love the way these
shots came out. |
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This one is a little big, this way you can
download it and print it and that is a gift from me to you!!! Merry
Christmas. |
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Another look at the Dual
Gauge just north of the Alamosa Wye.... a lot of history there.. |
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Now a few classic shots of
463 by Bill Noe.
Locomotive 463 is having its fire
cleaned over the ash pit in Chama. |
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Another shot of 463 over the Ash pit. |
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Locomotive 463 pulling up to the
Water tan in Chama. |
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And another classic of 463, taking
water from the Chama tank sitting on the main.
Thanks to Bill Noe for these great
shots. |
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You can't see too well in
this picture, but the third rail marks are all over the ties in this
Wye, apparently the third rail was pulled up and the Wye remained in
service in a standard gauge configuration for a while. The Wye has
been removed from service and is disconnected from the mainline.
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Welcome to the Chama Shop, these were taken
the 7th of December, 2005. They show work being done in the Chama
Shop to ready the Locomotive's for the 2006 season. |
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A look at 487, its driver wheels will be work on
and it will receive a new Trailing truck axle as well as a New
Driver axle. The Crownbrass boxes will also be reworked and new
Babbitt applied. |
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Another look at 487's driver rigging with the
axles removed. |
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You can see how the Shop trucks support 487 and
there is 488 in the background. |
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Another look at 484, you can see on the right and
just in the center of the picture is the sleeve that fits into the
Bissell post on the Pilot truck. |
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488 in the Shop, its front end is being worked on. |
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There is 484. |
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All the driver wheels are being worked on, they
have been inspected for anything unusual. |
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Another view of the driver axles. |
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A look at 488s front end, once removed the wheels
on the Pilot truck seemed to have worn a little off, so this device was set up to bore
the interior of the pocket where the Bissell Post sits.. it was a
little off, but that problem has been solved by our guys in the
shop. |
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I wanted to show you detail picture's of this
device... you can see how the device was driven by a Drill. |
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You can see how it was set up to bore out the
Bissell post pocket. |
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This is Locomotive 488. |
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I hope you enjoyed these shots... |
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Now a few shots of the Chama Yard.. I liked this
shot of a ground Switch in the snow. |
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The tenders sit outside waiting for the summer. |
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They have been shoveled clean of all coal and
cleaned thoroughly inside the tanks. |
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Another view of the North
leg of the Alamosa Wye... |
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How about a visit to Alamosa
and the San Luis & Rio Grande... |
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Three of the SL&RG Locomotives were
moving around the yard.. |
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I thought they made for a nice
locomotive shot... |
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They are also part of a new beginning
for the website, they are part of a Video Clip for the website, a
bit of a test... hope you like them. |
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1st Try At A Short Video With Sound, now this might
not be very exciting.. but I will work on making the clips more
exciting in the future.. now if you have a slow computer like mine..
you could "Right Click" on the link to the left and save/download it
to your desktop while you look at the other picture's.. Thank you
again for all your support.... and i hope you enjoy this new
addition to the website!!!! |
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Now another visit back to my
new favorite railroad, just south of my home.. the Santa Fe
Southern. Now if
I am correct, that building in the background used to be a
restaurant and is now some offices and if I am correct... was that
the old Rio Grande Depot in Santa Fe... well next to it is a stretch
of track with very old rail, heavily worn and thin... |
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And in this shot is the track, you
can see the rail that used to carry glorious, beautiful steam
locomotives under those "modern day world" unfeeling, non-exciting
piece's of automobile's.
Man, can't believe they just park there right on top of History.. |
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The busy end of 701... |
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Haven't been able to see this
Locomotive in Action, but she may just be on Back-up duty.. |
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I like this Locomotive, great looking
machine. |
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Well I will be back to the Santa Fe
Southern in the future... hope you enjoyed your small visit. |
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Welcome to "Rattlesnake"
Trestle on the Ole' San Luis Southern Railway. |
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The San Luis Southern, was built in
1910 and operated until 1939, It started in Blanca, Colorado and ran
south to New San Acacio, Mesita and Jaroso, Colorado. It
appears to have been abandoned in 1950. |
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One of two remaining structures of
the San Luis Southern is the Rattlesnake Trestle. In 2004 it was
placed on the National Register of Historic Places as it continues
to span Trinchera Creek. |
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Now look at these picture's
closely... |
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I found this interesting artifact
being used as a Culvert, any ideas on what it was. |
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This is the Rattlesnake trestle from
east of its Location, its a beautiful structure and I understand it
will undergo some repair in the future. |
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Another view of Rattlesnake Trestle. |
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And to finish this off, A view of the
deck of the bridge, for a long time the county road which has since
been diverted used to go right over this bridge. |
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How about a shot of the Chama Shop in a
light covering of snow... Hope you are having a great holiday season
and I will see you next week.
Carlos... |
