Shots of the Chama, NM shops

These photos were taken in the early 1990's in Chama, New Mexico. Some of these photos can actually be used as scale drawings. The black and white painted carpenter's square in the photos has the black and white changing on the one foot marks. On the long end of the square, the black and white stripes are both one inch wide. On the short end of the square, the inside white stripe is 1/2" and the outside black strip is one inch.

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The coal stove in the foreground is still used to heat the shop. The door has the date "1882" cast into it. The lathe behind the stove is a modern piece of machinery. The old belt drive equipment (equipment driven from a central stationary steam boiler and tied together to the steam plant through a series of rollers, belts and drive shafts) is long gone.

This is the west end of the Chama back shop. This was not original D&RGW. D&RGW had Alamosa as their main back shop and after abandonment in 1968 used Durango. The C&TS back shop has two tracks, each with a pit.

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