Bill,
Do not know how much interchange took place at Trinidad,
probably not much. The big California connection for the
C&S/FW&D was at Dalhart.
FWIW, the C&S/BN never lost the industries that they served
in the original Trinidad alignment. Between the end of Two
Tracks and the BN Transfer there are a number of tracks that
are South of the Raton Sub Main. The AT&SF does not do any
switching there. From time to time the crew of a M-AMADEN
comes over and does what work is necessary. Only switching
that the AT&SF does in Trinidad is at the sand track which is
further to the West and North of the Raton Sub Main.
With directional running the M-ABQDEN goes to the C&S/BN via
the Transfer Track. With the Powder River Division taking over
all operations between Denver and Amarillo there is a big
pecking order battle that was supposed to be settled with the
policy that the M-ABQDEN had to be actually delivered on
C&S/BN property by the turn crew from Raton. Do not know if
that policy extends to grain empties which I have even had
a C&S/BN crew come West of Jansen to get.
This is one of those interesting places on the BNSF where no
merger has taken place. There is a Superintendent of Operations
and a Trainmaster at Trinidad but they have no authority over
anything that goes on with the Raton Sub which is still part
of the Southwest Division.
The Boise City Sub between Las Animas Jct and Dumas is now
Dispatched by the Front Range/Casper Dispatcher. Think the
long term plan is to combine the LaJunta Sub from Dodge City
to LaJunta, (Kansas Division), and Phoenix Sub, (Southwest
Division), with the Fort Worth Dispatcher that handles the
Red Rock Sub, (Texas Division), between Saginaw and Temple.
Very strange territories.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: Q5632west@aol.com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 21 February, 2004 16:57
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CBQ interchange with ATSF
In a message dated 2/21/04 10:54:55 AM, pepperkay@aol.com writes:
>Was there anyplace in the CB&Q system that interchanges were
>
>performed with the Santa Fe ?
Don't forget Trinidad, Colorado, where the C&S had a convoluted horseshoe
route into and out of the Purgatoire River valley later replaced with a
flyover
bypassing the town. The steep, slithering C&S line from the north remains as
an interchange between the two now-BNSF lines.
There was also a 17-mile stretch of ATSF trackage rights on the C&S between
Clayton and Mt. Dora in northeastern New Mexico connecting to the ATSF Colmor
Cutoff, a failed attempt to build a low-grade line around Raton Pass. The
ATSF
branch from Mt. Dora to Farley operated through the 1930s with the rails
pulled up in/after 1942 during the World War Two scramble for scrap steel.
Bill
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