Nostalgia & History > Got a '67 Santa Fe "Albuquerque Division" ETT handy?

Can you please tell me what the 1967 maximum authorized passenger train speed limits were for:

Albuquerque - Isleta
Isleta - Dalies

Also (if there was any) speed restriction on the curve at Isleta:

http://cregory.net/ATSF/19500000-1952TC/05/05-079.html

(M.P. 915.0 of what became the Glorieta Sub, or M.P. 12.6 of the what became the Gallup Sub.)

Last but not least, can you give me the names of the "Districts" involved from Albuquerque to and including Dalies Junction?

Thank you for your help in advance,

Bob

ATSF100WEST......Out

Have a #12 Dated June 8th 1969 will that work ?

MP 914.9 Westward Speed 70 MPH Max Speed 79 MPH



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/13 21:55 by miralomarail.

Last but not least, can you give me the names of the "Districts" involved from Albuquerque to and including Dalies Junction?

Thank you for your help in advance,

Bob

ATSF100WEST......Out

Per the Albuquerque Division Time Table #12 in effect Sunday, June8, 1969

Albuquerque to and including Dallies is part of the First District which extends to Gallup, NM

Belen, NM to Dalies is the Belen District Max Passenger Speed 79 MPH Freight 60 MPH

Note the westward 75-mph speed board on the
track chart approaching Isleta. Presumably
that was for trains heading to Dalies?

timz2 Wrote:
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> Note the westward 75-mph speed board on the
> track chart approaching Isleta. Presumably
> that was for trains heading to Dalies?

That track chart was from 1952 (note the signals were semaphores). ETT's show the curve at Isleta Junction (Milepost 914.9, Coast Line Trains only) speed limits for Passenger 70, Freights 55.

Thank you one and all for your kind help!

Bob

ATSF100WEST......Out

Turns out Isleta was 75 mph until about 1957,
then 70 until the 1970s -- presumably until
all the SFe curves got reduced circa 1977.

The curve just west of Isleta

https://maps.google.com/?ll=34.898176,-106.708805&spn=0.005121,0.006968&t=k&z=18

seems to be the limiting factor.