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Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:54 am**

Morning preparations also some pre departure switching of Friends assets:

: 2018-08-18 484 moves away from the house to begin the day.jpg (94.55 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 The coal ash flies as the hostlers blow down the ash pan.jpg (88.88 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 The 484 has now moved to the tank to fill up and wet the coal.jpg (93.19 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 After the second wash the 484 backs toward the coal dock lead.jpg (95.71 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 The 484 pulls by the woodshop as it heads to get coal.jpg (92.36 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 The loader dumps in another bucket full of coal as the other hostler talks to some fans.jpg (94.13 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 The hostlers now turn the 484 over to the road crew, their jobs done.jpg (87.77 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

The road crew now does some switching of the Friends cars prior to moving to the train.

: 2018-08-18 The road crew has gone into the depot track and picked up the 3686, the paint car.jpg (96.57 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 They have pulled out on the main with it.jpg (106.8 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 Now they have coupled onto the 3476 which is wrapped.jpg (113.84 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:21 pm**

Morning work continued:

: 2018-08-18 Looks like the 3476 is headed into the swamp.jpg (102.8 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 The paint car is now placed on the connecting track.jpg (95.54 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 The switch list finished, they have coupled onto today's train.jpg (106.67 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 The train is now in loading position.jpg (105.78 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

: 2018-08-18 With the parlor in loading positioin, passengers are gettin on.jpg (84.59 KiB) Viewed 3482 times

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Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:23 pm**

Departure of train 216: Thanks to Rick for posting his transition videos until I was able to get mine done.

: 2018-08-18 If you look closely by the parlor you can see the upraised arm of the conductor.jpg (88.89 KiB) Viewed 3480 times

: 487 can be seen behind the cars on the connector track; 2018-08-18 The 484 is enveloped in steam as it gets the train underway.jpg (107.08 KiB) Viewed 3480 times

: 2018-08-18 The 484 is nearing the tipple with its train.jpg (108.14 KiB) Viewed 3480 times

: The train is passing the tipple

: 2018-08-18 The parlor New Mexico has the markers on out bound 216.jpg (96.87 KiB) Viewed 3480 times

: 2018-08-18 The parlor is passing the tank as the 484 leaves the yard.jpg (97.38 KiB) Viewed 3480 times

: 2018-08-18 The last cars are rounding the curve as the train heads east.jpg (98.59 KiB) Viewed 3480 times

Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:35 pm**

Further switching:

: 2018-08-18 The 487 has pulled the cars on the south side of the access road back.jpg (108.54 KiB) Viewed 3480 times

: 2018-08-18 With 216 gone, the 487 comes out to do more switching of Friends cars.jpg (106.47 KiB) Viewed 3479 times

: 2018-08-18 487 has gone into the connector track and coupled onto the 2 cars closest to the tipple.jpg (108.08 KiB) Viewed 3479 times

: 2018-08-18 The cars are now on the main.jpg (108.9 KiB) Viewed 3479 times

: 2018-08-18 The first car has been shoved back into the connector track.jpg (107.12 KiB) Viewed 3479 times

: 2018-08-18 The car that was on the south end of the 2 has now been placed on the north end.jpg (105.73 KiB) Viewed 3479 times

: 2018-08-18 The swap done, the 487 heads back to the house.jpg (98.1 KiB) Viewed 3479 times

The 487 is back out doing more switching. Will have some images once its done and I can process them. It pulled a box car from the house so wonder if the house workers were doing something to it.

: 2018-08-18 The 487 is coming out of the west stall with a box car.jpg (79.12 KiB) Viewed 3473 times

: 2018-08-18 The 487 has come out far enough to clear the house lead switch.jpg (79.15 KiB) Viewed 3473 times

: Headed to south yard; 2018-08-18 The 487 shoves the car back.jpg (73.69 KiB) Viewed 3473 times

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Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:04 pm**

Arrival of train 215 in a thunderstorm:

: 2018-08-18 The 489 brings a 7 car train 215 into a wet Chama.jpg (103.66 KiB) Viewed 3457 times

: 2018-08-18 The 489 comes up to the tank as the parlor passes the house lead switch.jpg (105.35 KiB) Viewed 3457 times

: 2018-08-18 The 489 is up to the tipple.jpg (96.56 KiB) Viewed 3457 times

: As the train passes the tipple, there is actually someone standing in the open gon

: 2018-08-18 The parlor Colorado has the markers of this 215.jpg (93.23 KiB) Viewed 3457 times

: 2018-08-18 The 489 is passing the display train.jpg (72.1 KiB) Viewed 3457 times

: 2018-08-18 The 489 is slowing for its stop.jpg (71.94 KiB) Viewed 3457 times

: 2018-08-18 The train is stopped and the conductor is placing the step box at the first coach.jpg (73.75 KiB) Viewed 3457 times

Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:27 pm**

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Nice camera work Sharon. Hope you brought dry clothes. Does not look like you had "computer freeze" problem. Great.

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Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:43 pm**

So far yesterday and today no issues on the stream. Thanks for the bridge video this morning.

Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:19 pm**

Sharon Evans wrote:So far yesterday and today no issues on the stream. Thanks for the bridge video this morning.

You are welcome. Anytime you want to post one of my YouTube videos to your page, just right click on the farce of the video, copy URL to clipboard, paste to your open Forum edit page, cleanup URL address, highlight and then insert youtube code.

Here is a sample URL address to play with: https://youtu.be/KD0_hE51cGg

Your efforts should produce:

Just a thought.

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