9/2/17 Saturday

[Sharon Evans]

Morning preparations:

9-2-17 488 moves out from the house.jpg (208.59 KiB) Viewed 3150 times

9-2-17 488 comes over the pit so the hostlers can clean its fire.jpg (200.4 KiB) Viewed 3150 times

9-2-17 488 backs toward the lead switch to the coal dock while Frank looks on and waves.jpg (178.09 KiB) Viewed 3138 times

9-2-17 488 moves by the wood shop as it heads to the coal dock.jpg (190.42 KiB) Viewed 3138 times

9-2-17 The loader dumps a bucket full into the bunker_.jpg (185.73 KiB) Viewed 3137 times

One of the road crewmen is also boarding at this point, maybe Tracy

9-2-17 The hostlers are done, one is closing and locking the lead switch.jpg (201.49 KiB) Viewed 3134 times

488 has gone into south yard so maybe a 4th coach.

9-2-17 The 488 pulls out of south yard with the extra coach.jpg (121.25 KiB) Viewed 3130 times

9-2-17 The 488 comes onto the main with the extra coach.jpg (212.51 KiB) Viewed 3130 times

9-2-17 The 488 has pulled train 216 forward into loading position.jpg (222.99 KiB) Viewed 3128 times

[Sharon Evans]

Departure of train 216: 488 and 8 cars

9-2-17 The 488 gets the 8 car train 216 moving out of Chama.jpg (221.37 KiB) Viewed 3116 times

9-2-17 The 488 comes past the wood shop as someone shoots it from the tipple ramp.jpg (211.93 KiB) Viewed 3116 times

The engineer of the 488 blows to let the conductor know the running brake test is on

9-2-17 Well, Frank is in the second window of the cafe, but there are people waving everywhere.jpg (192.36 KiB) Viewed 3116 times

9-2-17 The Colorado is on the markers and will it come back again this afternoon, we will see.jpg (201.02 KiB) Viewed 3116 times

9-2-17 The 488 is clearing north yard as the parlor passes the tank.jpg (186.91 KiB) Viewed 3116 times

9-2-17 The tourest and parlor round the curve north of the yard.jpg (192.04 KiB) Viewed 3116 times

[Frank Smith]

#488 had to have some new seals according to Julian. I shook my head like I knew what he was talking about. With #484 down, and #455/463 on special duty, that put us with 1 engine on each side for a while. Wish us Luck on the trial run today. We have father son team, Ray and Evan Martinez as train crew today.
Nobody knows yet whether we will be turning trains at Osier today.
Tomorrow is my last ride this year. My 50th on a $150 ticket. I will become known as Frank the freeloader instead of Frank the Waver. 91 the last 2 years. I have enjoyed every trip. No 2 trips have been the same. Thank you friends for tolerating my riding obsession, and I promise to sign up for some Work Sessions next year.
Gotta Go. Gotta train to ride. I'll be waving from the Café Car.

[Sharon Evans]

Wow Frank, that works out to $3 a ride, what a bargain even with having to pay extra for the occasional parlor ride and lunch at Osier, since season ticket holders have to do that. Evan is a neat young man. Rode from Antonito to Osier with him this year and the trainman rides the parlor platform most of the way so we talked a lot.

[Pat Maufrais]

Frank!
Enjoyed talking with you and riding several of the trains with you!!
Will be looking for you next year.
Pat

[Sharon Evans]

Arrival of train 215: 488 and 8 cars
Well its the New Mexico set that came in which means that they swapped the locomotives but ran the sets through.

9-2-17 The point of light that is 488's headlight glows from the shadows_.jpg (203.43 KiB) Viewed 3066 times

9-2-17 The 488 comes by the tank with its 8 car train.jpg (199.46 KiB) Viewed 3066 times

9-2-17 The 488 comes up to the tipple.jpg (191.56 KiB) Viewed 3066 times

Frank is back in the open gon waving away to us

9-2-17 The parlor is by the wood shop as the train nears the depot.jpg (213.07 KiB) Viewed 3066 times

9-2-17 The 488 is almost stopped as it passes the depot.jpg (176.25 KiB) Viewed 3066 times

9-2-17 The traiin is now stopped as the cleaning crew move toward the first coach.jpg (182.46 KiB) Viewed 3066 times

[Rick Calkins]

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Another beautiful evening at the C&TSR Chama Depot rail yards. Locomotive #488 hostlers finish dumping the accumulated ash and clinkers from its grate. There does not seem to be any pressure to quickly finish this task. Once a hostler climbs onto the tender, you can take it as a signal that the next stop is the water tower. After a few hundred gallons are dumped into the 5,000 gallon tank, the crew backs Locomotive #488 past the ash pit to the engine house. There is still work to perform, but most of it will be out of sight of the cameras.
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