The Fort Sumner railroad station is at milepost 717 at an elevation of 4,050 feet. The town was initially called Sunnyside until 1910. Train VKCLA comes by the Fort Sumner depot on July 12, 1988. The train has engines 5714, 3066, and 8042. Rather odd to see a GP20 in the consist. These units generally are assigned to trains in Illinois or Kansas. Train 358 became train VKCLA in mid-1987. It handled auto racks and auto parts, but also picked up TOFC in route for Los Angeles and that is what you see on the headend. It was scheduled out of Kansas City at 11:00PM and out of Clovis at 3:40PM the next day.

A little later, train 813 rolled east with engine 8132 on the point. Disk 60

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