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Locomotive Details |
Location/Date of Photo |
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» Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (more..)
» Steam 2-8-2 (more..) |
» Windy Point (Colorado) on the DRGW ng.
» Chama, New Mexico, USA (more..)
» July, 1964 |
| Locomotive No./Train ID |
Photographer |
» DRGW 488 (more..)
» Unknown |
» John West (more..)
» Photographer Profile |
| Remarks & Notes |
| The 488 with a Cumbres turn really smokes it up as it climbs the final 4 percent around Windy Point to the pass. As was normal practice, a helper is cut in ahead of the caboose in the distance. Typically two Cumbres turns would be made with two (or before 1959 three) engines. The following morning a third cut would be hauled up the hill and then a 70 car train put together behind one engine for the long downhill run from Cumbres to Alamosa. |
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