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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 1:16 PM
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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:16 PM

Up the hill a bit is a Weather Device operated by the Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, December 23, 2011 9:10 AM

At this point, two (2) things begin to happen. First, C&TS#484 breaks away as we no longer need the helper engine and C&TS#488 pulls out of Cumbres to continue our day long trip.

As we pull forward I pass the Water Standpipe

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, December 23, 2011 3:12 PM

Like Lisa, I now pass the Cumbres Depot

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Monday, December 26, 2011 9:35 AM

Here you can see the Car Inspector's House (1911)

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Monday, December 26, 2011 10:11 PM

The next thing coming into view is the Show Shed

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 4:07 PM

The site of the Covered Turntable can be seen as a partial circle on the ground.

The dotted circle shows the location of the covered turntable on the long leg of the snow shed between 1885 and 1916. It was a gallows-type turntable, measuring 50 feet in diameter and was used to turn locomotives.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:29 AM

With the C&TS#484 moved onto the Wye, the #488 pulls forward bring me past the first Equipment Shed

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:32 AM

Between passing the first and second Equipment Shed I catch C&TS#484 on the Wye.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, December 30, 2011 8:59 AM

Now I pass the second Shed

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:56 AM

As we roll pass the Wye we can see C&TS#484 backing up into the Snow Shed.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 1:47 PM

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 4:17 PM

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Saturday, January 14, 2012 3:27 PM

C&TS#484 sits a the top of the Wye at the Snow Shed as we begin to head down the pass.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Monday, January 16, 2012 8:49 AM

C&TS#484 still doing a "steam blowdown" as we pull away with a couple of Railfans take close shots.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Monday, January 16, 2012 3:23 PM

As our train (pulled by C&TS#488) pulls away from the Wye, #484 starts back down the Wye to the mainline.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:59 AM

C&TS#484 pull in behind us to head back to Chama as no double headers are allowed east of this point.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:37 PM
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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:31 AM

Here is a shot as we start into Tanglefoot Curve

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:35 PM

Does anyone know how Tanglefoot Curve got it's name?

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:35 AM

No takers on my question about Tanglefoot Curve Sad

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:28 PM

At this location, railroad builders had to lay track in wide loops to gain 39 feet of elevation. Eastbound train crews would jump off the slow moving trains on the upper track, walk down to the lower track, inspect the trains for "hot boxes" (burned out bearings) and reboard the caboose. Legend has it that many years ago a Trainman "tangled" his foot in a briar and slid down the bank almost into the path of his own train - hence the name.

The tracks pass each other within feet as the loop is in the shape of a tear drop. If the train was long enough you could nearly touch the caboose from the engine.

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Posted by KCSfan on Friday, January 20, 2012 2:40 PM

Stourbridge Lion

C&TS#484 still doing a "steam blowdown" as we pull away with a couple of Railfans take close shots.

http://www.trainweb.org/rradventures/images/2005-09-22_Cumbres_and_Toltec_Scenic_Railroad/akr.jpg

I've greatly enjoyed your pictires and hope you have more to share with us. Just a minor correction to the caption of this shot. It's not a "blowdown' but actually is the safety valve "popping off".

Mark

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, January 20, 2012 2:50 PM

Here is Motor Car #101 pulling #208T on the upper track as we pass by on the lower track.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, January 20, 2012 3:00 PM

KCSfan

 

 Stourbridge Lion:

 

C&TS#484 still doing a "steam blowdown" as we pull away with a couple of Railfans take close shots.

 

 

I've greatly enjoyed your pictires and hope you have more to share with us. Just a minor correction to the caption of this shot. It's not a "blowdown' but actually is the safety valve "popping off".

Mark

 

Thanks Mark! Thumbs Up

Yes, there is lots more of this Trip Report coming and it goes beyond the C&TS Ride Cowboy

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Posted by FlyingCrow on Friday, January 20, 2012 7:04 PM

Yes, I have as well.  Very nostalgic especially since I was one of the dozens of volunteers, who, in the summer of 1970, put this line and equipment back into operation.    

 

 

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Posted by mobilman44 on Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:50 AM

Hi!

This is a terrific thread, and I really enjoy it!

While we have been on the C&T a few times in the last 10 years or so, we haven't been to Durango in a good 12 years.   I have a picture (can't locate it right now) I took along side a road outside of Durango of a red Santa Fe caboose attached end to end with a D&RG yellow (?) caboose.   The center part was protected by plexiglas and it was obviously someone's home.

Has anyone else out there seen this? 

ENJOY  !

 

Mobilman44

 

Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central 

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:25 PM

As we continue around the curve Lisa catches some shots of the Fall Colors in the area.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:25 PM

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