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487 appears to have had her tender reattached as she is smoking outside the house.

#15 pulled 487 out over the pit, with her tender attached yesterday afternoon. Then a front end loader came out and worked behind the tender for a few minutes. #15 then pushed 487 and tender back to the house. Great to ee the smoke this morning.

Edward Morris wrote:#15 pulled 487 out over the pit, with her tender attached yesterday afternoon. Then a front end loader came out and worked behind the tender for a few minutes. #15 then pushed 487 and tender back to the house. Great to ee the smoke this morning.

Thanks for the explanation Ed, I wasn't watching then. Always great to see a hot engine!

i wonder when 484 will make an appearance

Claude Wilkerson wrote:i wonder when 484 will make an appearance

Shouldn't be too long now. I am guessing that they will need two locos for when the Chama trains start, and as 488 still isn't ready, they will probably need 484.

487 comes up to the ashpit to get a clean. After a relatively brief time at the pit, it heads straight past the tank without stopping for water. Backs down the main with no coal stop either. 487 reverses through the yard. She now appears to have backed down onto the coaches. Since then a portion of the train has been detached. And have now been reattached. Strange. Possibly removing coaches from the consist, but was hard to tell.

After much switching, 487 leaves a portion of the coaches in the yard and backs onto the rest. Here is some more coverage of 487's switching: