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Here is Steven Dickey's
favorite Warbird
the Grumman F8F Bearcat. |
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Another great shot of my
Friend Trini Dominguez, her Cousin Ray and Trini's Sister Frankie...
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I can't help it, they have
great cheese sticks... I stopped in to pick up a T-shirt for a
friend!!! |
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Well a little fresh snow fell on Antonito
and the surrounding mountains. I apologize, I was unable to get to
the shops this week for new shots... but my schooling and work on
the SL&RG accounts for close to 60 hours a week and its a bit hard
to find the time... But I will get into the shops soon for new
picture's. |
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Snow gathers on one of the Wooden standard gauge
cars in Antonito. |
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As beautiful as always, I know its not very
historical, but I have always thought the C&T Antonito Depot is a
Beautiful structure. |
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One of the passenger coaches and Caboose 0306. |
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The cars are being worked on in Antonito, Marvin,
Marvin V., Ronnie and Sam are in the Antonito shop and going strong. |
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Snow on the Cupola of Caboose 0306. |
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The winter has been relatively easy and Caboose
0306 looks great in its new paint job from last summer. |
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Carita's started its career
in 1948 as Pierre LaClede, a 14-4 Pullman Sleeper for the Frisco's
"Texas Special". High Iron Travel bought her from the VIA in
1983 and rebuilt her into her present Art Deco Style. Friday Evening
or better yet very early morning Saturday she rolled into Alamosa
for her second visit to the San Luis Valley and the good Ole' Rio
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This Aircraft
was designed to combat the feared Kamikaze's,
to intercept them as quick as possible. To do this
they designed the smallest airframe around the largest
production engine @ the time, the Pratt&Whitney R-2800
which had 2300 H.P. Thanks to Steven for these great shots. |
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Heading back to Alamosa from
Walsenburg... |
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We are climbing out of the La Veta
Valley... headed West. |
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Here we go, rolling into the East
tunnel on the shadow side of the Mountain. |
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Passing the coolest rock formation I
saw on La Veta Pass... |
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We are going thru the West switch of
Occidental Siding. |
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Looking back to the other Locomotives
in the consist! |
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Rolling over the Summit, you can hear
a little radio communication. |
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We are just over the Summit and are
rolling down into the Muleshoe Curve, you can see the connecting
track to the right. |
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This shot offers a better view of the
connecting track. |
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Now we are near the bottom of the
curve. |
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Now thru the curve, you can see the
track climbing to the summit above and to the right. |
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Making our way down the pass, the sun
is going down and the headlight is lighting up the cuts. |
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Passing the old Bunk Car on the
Summit of La Veta. |
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The last sun rays are shining over
Mount Blanca up ahead on the horizon. |
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There goes the sun, we will ride the
next 40 miles to Alamosa in the dark.
I hope you enjoyed your ride over La
Veta Pass. |
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Built too late to see action in
WWII, it did see combat with the French in the French-Indo-China
war. 1,266 were made with about 8 currently flyable. It was the last
of the prop driven
fighter's until the jet's came on scene. |
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Thanks to Dan Dawson we have
a great interior of the cab shot, the hand on the throttle is
Cool... |
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Now this is a great shot, I have
always liked this type of shot.... |
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I love this one, look at all the
Caboose's in the shot, that looks like there's a transfer caboose
also in the consist. |
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What do you think of that Locomotive,
what a Beauty, thanks to Dan Dawson for the great shots. |
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They were capable of
climbing @ 6600 feet per minute!, could
climb to 10,000ft in under a minute & a half, with a top speed
@20,000ft of 450mph! Thanks to Steven for these awesome shots. |
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Rolling into Deep River
Station, here are some great shots from Brice edgerton. |
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The train meets River Boats, wouldn't
that be cool... I would love to see that! |
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Shots like these are so amazing, we
are lucky to run these machines and its a joy to share our view of
the ride. |
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And here is Good Ole' Number 97, that
is a beauty of a steam locomotive... |
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Thanks to Bruce for these great
shots, I had been wanting to share them with you all... |
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Carita's sits in the
Locomotive ready track in Alamosa, she will be used for a passenger
run over La Veta Pass in a few days. |
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More picture's of 053, I like the details in
these cars.. every door has something different and special to it. |
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This car has history, I would love to be able to haul
it along the line in a work train with bunk cars and other work
equipment. |
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A look at the ladder and hand-brake. |
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The details in the Hand-brake and wood-work. |
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A look at the whole car... |
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A detail of the springs and bolster of the truck.
These are a type of Arch-bar trucks.. now I will be honest I am not
sure of the Proper name of these trucks.. |
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I love the detail in the overhead walk way with
its handrail. |
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The end window, although this end has a deck,
there is no door. |
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A detailed look at the roof, again I love the
details. |
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A view of the deck and coupler, I like the brake
wheel, that's a cool design. |
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A "FRED" or rear-of-train
device sits on Carita's as she was the rear of a 4-Locomotive One
car train west over La Veta.. |
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A few views of Cumbres in January 2006... |
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More snow has fallen since then, but I have been
unable to get up there.... |
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The rails try to break thru the snow. |
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The Car repairman's house in Cumbres, this is a
beautiful structure and I am glad it has been worked on... |
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The Snowshed in Cumbres. |
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And another view of Cumbres, I hope you enjoyed a
little peek at Snowy Cumbres Pass in January. |
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Sunday the 5th of February
and the sun sets on Carita's as she sits in the Alamosa Yard.. I
will keep you updated on its Visit to the San Luis Valley..
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Well thanks to Rod Whelan, I
am going to take you thru a bit of a Restoration here... Ready, here
we go!!! |
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The initial timbers are set in place. |
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The beams come into place, they
are set in the end sill. |
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Now some of the hardware... |
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Those center brackets will support
the truss rods or better yet, the truss rods will support these and
the car. |
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You can see some of the Hardware
coming into place. |
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Now the truss rods are in place.. |
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You can see how the end beams were
knotched... |
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The coupler pockets are in place. |
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Now that is starting to look like a
flatcar, now just have to turn it over.
I will have the conclusion of the
Project next update!!! Thanks again to Rod Whelan for the picture's. |
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Well another beautiful shot
of that Grumman F8F Bearcat. Thanks to Steven for these great shots.
I hope you continue to enjoy
the website and again, if any of you have any ideas on how to
increase the amount of visitors we get on this Website and ideas on
how to improve the site itself, send them along to me... I always up
for new stuff.
See ya: Carlos Llamas
llamas2004@centurytel.net
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