10/16/17 Monday (6)

[Sharon Evans]

Morning preparations: Right now the normal 7 car train is staged.

10-16-17 The 488 moves out from the house to begin the day.jpg (193.14 KiB) Viewed 3454 times

10-16-17 The 488 comes over the pit for a morning clean before heading east.jpg (182.51 KiB) Viewed 3454 times

10-16-17 The 488 has moved down to the tank to top off its cistern.jpg (197 KiB) Viewed 3452 times

10-16-17 The 488 backs toward the coal dock lead.jpg (176.23 KiB) Viewed 3452 times

10-16-17 The 488 pulls forward by the wood shop as it heads to the coal dock.jpg (185.63 KiB) Viewed 3452 times

10-16-17 The 488 has coal added to its bunker.jpg (173.07 KiB) Viewed 3452 times

10-16-17 Their work done the hostlers have parked the 488 for the road crew.jpg (245.69 KiB) Viewed 3387 times

10-16-17 The 488 has now pulled the 7 car train 216 forward to loading position.jpg (244.31 KiB) Viewed 3387 times

[Sharon Evans]

Departure of train 216: 488 and 7 cars

10-16-17 The 488 gets the standard 7 car train underway.jpg (251.17 KiB) Viewed 3385 times

10-16-17 The 488 comes by the wood shop as it has its train in hand.jpg (246.01 KiB) Viewed 3385 times

10-16-17 The parlor Colorado is on the marker this morning.jpg (222.46 KiB) Viewed 3385 times

10-16-17 The 488 is almost at the north end of the yard as the parlor passes the speeder shed.jpg (214.85 KiB) Viewed 3385 times

10-16-17 The parlor is almost out of the yard as the speeder passes the tank.jpg (213.89 KiB) Viewed 3385 times

10-16-17 The parlor is rounding the curve as the speeder takes the main.jpg (213.21 KiB) Viewed 3385 times

[Claude Wilkerson]

what is going on near the ash pit

[Sharon Evans]

I just got home and looking at it also. It looks to me that the tender and locomotive body of 463 are at a weird angle. I would hazard a guess that it is derailed, now whether the locomotive or tender not sure. One of the front end loaders is to the east side of the tender.

10-16-17 The 463 seems to be having an issue, maybe on the ground.jpg (214.25 KiB) Viewed 3404 times

10-16-17 The 463 seems to be fixed now.jpg (205.97 KiB) Viewed 3400 times

Look closely at the tender of the 463, isn't the RGS logo mostly gone?

Once the 463 got forward the house crew was throwing a lot of metallic things into the bucket of the loader. Once all is done will review the recording to see what actually happened.

10-16-17 The loader has taken some of the metallic items to the odds and ends pile by the speeder sheds.jpg (173.97 KiB) Viewed 3394 times

I have reviewed the recording and will not expound on what I think I am seeing.

[Sharon Evans]

Arrival of train 215: 489 and 7 cars

10-16-17 The 489 comes into Chama with the standard 7 car trainset.jpg (180.3 KiB) Viewed 3355 times

10-16-17 The 489 comes up to the tipple_.jpg (177.98 KiB) Viewed 3355 times

You can hear the sound of dumping coal on the video

10-16-17 A nice group in the open gon looking at what I suspect is a large dump truck delivering coal.jpg (175.01 KiB) Viewed 3355 times

10-16-17 The parlor New Mexico is on the markers of this set.jpg (197.77 KiB) Viewed 3355 times

10-16-17 The 489 is almost stopped as it passes the depot.jpg (176.03 KiB) Viewed 3355 times

10-16-17 The 489 is stopped and the passengers are getting off.jpg (174.49 KiB) Viewed 3355 times

10-16-17 One of the hostlers is doing the post run evaluation and is looking all over the drive gear and making notes.jpg (171.63 KiB) Viewed 3355 times

10-16-17 On the way to the wye.jpg (179.99 KiB) Viewed 3355 times

[Larry Gibson]

I have reviewed the recording and will not expound on what I think I am seeing.

Let's hope whatever happened isn't serious. Still drawing a crowd of onlookers when I looked in.