Larry Gibson 2016 C&TS Adventures - Day 9

[Larry Sullivan]

The big picture as 216 gets ready to leave.

[Larry Sullivan]

216 Departure

487 Passes the water tank

Fire patrol awaits as 487 passes the switch

Sets the switch so speeder can move onto the main.

Re-aligns track to the main, then follows 216

[Larry Sullivan]

At the ash pit.

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Getting water.

[Larry Sullivan]

From this morning, the train stopped near the water tank, engineer was banging something on the right side - all seemed well a few minutes later.

[Jeff Schrimmer]

I love that last photo.

It reminds of when I sometimes had to bang on an old guitar amplifier to get it to work. I had to do that to a couple of TVs, too.

Actually, I love all of the photos. Larry G. timed his trip really well. So much going on!

Jeff

[John Cole]

Good to see fire patrol speeder 101 back in action. Marvin and his guys had that car all apart fixing damage when we were there in session E. Looks great.

[Larry Sullivan]

Many mornings we see the fire patrol speeder head down and wait at the switch until 216 pulls out. So what is he doing down there, sleeping? No.... often doing little track maintenance tasks to help keep things running smooth. This morning, Julian Pacheco is digging out a tree root that was beginning to effect the switch points.

[Larry Sullivan]

A couple from early this morning I forgot to post.

[Larry Sullivan]

Some from this afternoon

[Larry Sullivan]

More

[John Hamman]

216 Departure

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Toward the top a terrific picture with tank cars reflecting in the rear window of the fire patrol speeder as they prepare to leave the north yard.
JH

[Larry Sullivan]

Larry Gibson reflecting on his trip to Chama.

There will be one more day, to close out this very eventful week.

[John Cole]

That's Julian Pacheco digging out the root by the switch, he was our pilot one year when we were bombing all of the weeds on the ROW with herbicide on the Antonito end. He is a really great guy and his knowledge of the railroad is just amazing. His father was a section gang forman and Julian told us he was born in Sublette, his younger brother Max was born in the big city, (Chama).

[Larry Sullivan]

That's Julian Pacheco digging out the root by the switch, he was our pilot one year when we were bombing all of the weeds on the ROW with herbicide on the Antonito end. He is a really great guy and his knowledge of the railroad is just amazing. His father was a section gang forman and Julian told us he was born in Sublette, his younger brother Max was born in the big city, (Chama).

Thanks John! Once Larry gets home and re-settled, we're going to go through and caption some of the photos - I'll add Julian's name to the post above.