Friends of the C&TS RR: June 2012
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Channel: John Horvath · 2012 · Travel & Events
Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR are one of the keys to CTS being 'born again' and operating today. Our main movie and sound track is Friend volunteers scraping, painting, restoring equipment in Chama, NM. Interspersed is the Friends school for fireman and engineer training, a freight train led by K-36 #488. Prepping 489: 02:45 the sand dome is filled by bags of sand instead of the sand system fastened to the coal tipple. 03:29 after filling tender water, the coal is flushed. 04:05 A front loader coals tender instead of the tipple. 04:49 Cameo of Friends locomotive K-27 #463 filmed from outside the engine house in Antonito, CO.
