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Nostalgia & History > Bringing up the rear...ATSF at Gallup, NM in July 1970Date: 07/27/10 09:39 Bringing up the rear...ATSF at Gallup, NM in July 1970 Author: the_expediter An eastbound under stormy skies. Wonder if I-40 had been built yet through Gallup.Taken with my old instamatic...Steve
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/10 15:54 by the_expediter.  Date: 07/27/10 13:27 Re: Bringing up the rear...ATSF at Gallup, NM in July 1 Author: SP7615 Is there a reason Santa Fe put the Cupola end toward the train, was it for visibility reasons.
SP7615 Date: 07/27/10 14:07 Re: Bringing up the rear...ATSF at Gallup, NM in July 1 Author: Evan_Werkema SP7615 Wrote:
> Is there a reason Santa Fe put the Cupola end > toward the train, was it for visibility reasons. I've read that Santa Fe considered the non-cupola end of the car to be the "front." I don't know that the railroad ever expended much effort to turn cabooses, and in later years they seemed to attached cabooses to trains with the cupola forward or back, however the car happened to be oriented. Date: 07/28/10 06:47 Re: Bringing up the rear...ATSF at Gallup, NM in July 1 Author: TCnR I've been told that crews preferred the smokestack to be behind the cupola. Not sure what they did about it though. This may have been a remark brought forward from the days of assigned cabooses, perhaps for local jobs as well. They did a few things differently back then. Sometimes history gets out of context.
Date: 07/28/10 07:32 Re: Bringing up the rear...ATSF at Gallup, NM in July 1 Author: Super_C the_expediter Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Wonder if I-40 had been built yet through Gallup. It took about another 20 years before Gallup was bypassed. Nope |