Turning 481
3,738 views · Published 23 September 2010 · 4:41 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: John Horvath · 2010 · Travel & Events
Weather and a balky turntable motor clutch make putting #481 away harder work than usual. 1:00 minute mark, the camera shakes. The camera and tripod are blowing over. I hold camera and tripod down for the rest of the shoot. At 3:05, right of the engine, a yard man pushes the turntable. At 2:05 and 2:54 the engine is moved to balance the turntable. August 12, 2010 is the last day of operating 6 trains daily, 3 to Silverton, 3 to Durango. 481 is entering the end stall face first. I am used to engines going in face first. An advantage of a round house is to give room to service the front of an engine by putting the machine in the stall face first. D&S, following D&RGW practice, typically puts their engines away tender first.. The end stall is the only stall with a pit. 481 is being put to sleep. Shot from the engine yard viewing area of the D&S Museum. The picss at the end, 4:25 , are of a pair of wood trucks between the camera and roundhouse. A new smokebox face, fabricated for a K-28, lies on the ground between the camera and roundhouse at the end of filming 3:55 . The hangers and smoke box door are attached to the new face. The old face is under the new face. Holes need drilled so the new face can be fastened to the smokebox.
