[RITSlist] Track Usage Question in Roswell

[Jim Eager]

>The track diagram I have for Roswell, CO shows a couple of tracks 
>inside the "Y" and I wondered what the railroad used them for.

In what era?  As Dick Hutchins wrote, one of the map sheets in 
Colorado Rail Annual No.17 shows the trackage at Roswell, but as of 
1910. At that time the north leg of the wye had two through tracks, 
the west leg had three through tracks, while there were six through 
tracks along the south leg, plus a stub track for the coal dock, and 
one other stub track. There were two leads to the turntable inside 
the wye, plus a stub track to the ash pit.

A much later 1960s station map I have shows two through tracks along 
the north leg, a short siding along the west leg (photos in CRA17 
show passenger cars parked and being washed on this track or on the 
west leg proper), and three tracks along the south leg (used as yard 
tracks and runarounds to block cars handled to/from the three 
industrial spurs located to the east of Roswell. The only track 
inside the wye is a lead to the turntable.

-- 

Jim Eager <jeager at sympatico.ca>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada


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