Nostalgia & History > Rio Grande 3011 Salida

D&RGW 3011 heads out the Monarch Pass line to pick up it's empties at Poncha Jct and make it's
way up to the limestone mine on Monarch Pass. Shot 8/77.

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Nice set of 30s Thanks for posting!

rrartist Wrote:
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> Nice set of 30s Thanks for posting!

I'll 2nd that. I like the old Conoco facility in the background also.
Maybe we could get group rates on time machine travel.
I'll give it ★★★★'s!

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Why would the empty gons been at Poncha Jct? Someone would have had to take them there from Salida and it would mean a crew for essentially nothing.

I followed a GP-30 train run to Monarch and watched its switching and return. It was fun to watch.

tomstp Wrote:
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> Why would the empty gons been at Poncha Jct?
> Someone would have had to take them there from
> Salida and it would mean a crew for essentially
> nothing.
>
> I followed a GP-30 train run to Monarch and
> watched its switching and return. It was fun to
> watch.


There might have been enough time at the end of the last crew, or a need to get the cars out of the smaller Salida yard at the time.

The gons would be taken out empty and split at either Poncha Jct or Maysville as the number
able to be taken to the mine was limited. It meant that some days the power went out light.

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They were split at Maysville.

Did service on this line last until the embargo of the Tennessee Pass line, or did it end earlier?

Todd Greenberg
Round Rock, TX