8/18/18 Saturday

[Sharon Evans]

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 3299 times

2018-08-18 The coal ash flies as the hostlers blow down the ash pan.jpg (88.88 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

2018-08-18 The 484 has now moved to the tank to fill up and wet the coal.jpg (93.19 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

2018-08-18 After the second wash the 484 backs toward the coal dock lead.jpg (95.71 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

2018-08-18 The 484 pulls by the woodshop as it heads to get coal.jpg (92.36 KiB) Viewed 3299 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 3299 times

2018-08-18 The hostlers now turn the 484 over to the road crew, their jobs done.jpg (87.77 KiB) Viewed 3299 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 3299 times

2018-08-18 They have pulled out on the main with it.jpg (106.8 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

2018-08-18 Now they have coupled onto the 3476 which is wrapped.jpg (113.84 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

[Sharon Evans]

Morning work continued:

2018-08-18 Looks like the 3476 is headed into the swamp.jpg (102.8 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

2018-08-18 The paint car is now placed on the connecting track.jpg (95.54 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

2018-08-18 The switch list finished, they have coupled onto today's train.jpg (106.67 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

2018-08-18 The train is now in loading position.jpg (105.78 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

2018-08-18 With the parlor in loading positioin, passengers are gettin on.jpg (84.59 KiB) Viewed 3299 times

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[Sharon Evans]

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 3297 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 3297 times

2018-08-18 The 484 is nearing the tipple with its train.jpg (108.14 KiB) Viewed 3297 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 3297 times

2018-08-18 The parlor is passing the tank as the 484 leaves the yard.jpg (97.38 KiB) Viewed 3297 times

2018-08-18 The last cars are rounding the curve as the train heads east.jpg (98.59 KiB) Viewed 3297 times

[Sharon Evans]

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 3297 times

2018-08-18 With 216 gone, the 487 comes out to do more switching of Friends cars.jpg (106.47 KiB) Viewed 3296 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 3296 times

2018-08-18 The cars are now on the main.jpg (108.9 KiB) Viewed 3296 times

2018-08-18 The first car has been shoved back into the connector track.jpg (107.12 KiB) Viewed 3296 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 3296 times

2018-08-18 The swap done, the 487 heads back to the house.jpg (98.1 KiB) Viewed 3296 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 3290 times

2018-08-18 The 487 has come out far enough to clear the house lead switch.jpg (79.15 KiB) Viewed 3290 times

Headed to south yard

2018-08-18 The 487 shoves the car back.jpg (73.69 KiB) Viewed 3290 times

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[Sharon Evans]

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 3274 times

2018-08-18 The 489 comes up to the tank as the parlor passes the house lead switch.jpg (105.35 KiB) Viewed 3274 times

2018-08-18 The 489 is up to the tipple.jpg (96.56 KiB) Viewed 3274 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 3274 times

2018-08-18 The 489 is passing the display train.jpg (72.1 KiB) Viewed 3274 times

2018-08-18 The 489 is slowing for its stop.jpg (71.94 KiB) Viewed 3274 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 3274 times

[Rick Calkins]

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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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[Sharon Evans]

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

[Rick Calkins]

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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