Off the Main Lines: A Photographic Odyssey (Railroads Past and Present) by Don L. Hofsommer

Author:Don L. Hofsommer [Hofsommer, Don L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

Alamosa was Rio Grande’s “change-of-gauge” location where trains, both standard gauge and narrow, were broken up or made up. The property was well groomed and the yard often a busy place. D&RGW’s depot is at left.

The illusion of high speed. The maximum authorized speed between Alamosa and Antonito was twenty-five miles per hour, a rule breached a bit on occasion. “Dog houses” on locomotive tenders were for the pleasure of the head brakeman; they were hardly commodious.

Nocturnal slumber in the Alamosa roundhouse for Rio Grande’s narrow-gauge locomotives was perfectly appropriate, but in the wee hours of the morning fires would be lit and these old warriors called to duty.

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