Re: More Fuzzy Pics - Chama to Coxo, 08/29/67 *
| May 14, 2015 01:15PM |
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Hello again -
The following morning, #497 had some chores to do before heading east. Here she is swapping out empty gons at the coaling tower for loads presumably from Monero, and then getting a drink. (Is John Gruber one of the fans in the 4th shot?):
#497 grabbed the cabeese while #493 backed to the train; an hour or so later they crossed Lobato Trestle eastbound:
These next four shots replicate an hour in August of 1966, when several of us ate a leisurely lunch while watching two engines fight gravity, curves and weeds.** LOTS and LOTS of slippery summer weeds after a few weeks of no trains:
It looks like at least this one shot at Coxo was taken without either of the @#$%& cheap telephoto extenders - and I didn't even have to employ my patented PhotoShop Ailments Phoamite Philter:
Compare the above to John Gruber's photo of the very same train on page 23 of the May, 2015 issue of TRAINS magazine . . .
The rest of the roll, taken with the fuzzifying 3X extender as the train rounded Windy Point, is definitely NOT worth dealing with.
- El Greengo Curmudgeoño de los Locos Viejos y Verdes
aka Der DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHaber
* Added 05/15/15: Thanks to Ernie Robart's meticulous notes, the date has been determined to be August 29, 1967.
** Added 01/24/19: I was traveling with my former college room-mate Max Power of Denver, and two of his railfan friends from high school, Keith Kirby and Roger Callendar, each of the latter was a president of the Rocky Club in the early and mid nineteen-nineties, respectively. We joined two other fans watching the show from the hillside above the 'S' curves, who turned out to be Ernie Robart and Olaf Rasmussen. Fifty-two years later, minus a few days, I was privileged to spend some time with Max, Keith & Roger at Como last August 22, and with Ernie & Olaf in Chama and at Cumbres the following weekend.
Edited 13 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2019 06:42PM by Russo Loco.
The following morning, #497 had some chores to do before heading east. Here she is swapping out empty gons at the coaling tower for loads presumably from Monero, and then getting a drink. (Is John Gruber one of the fans in the 4th shot?):
#497 grabbed the cabeese while #493 backed to the train; an hour or so later they crossed Lobato Trestle eastbound:
These next four shots replicate an hour in August of 1966, when several of us ate a leisurely lunch while watching two engines fight gravity, curves and weeds.** LOTS and LOTS of slippery summer weeds after a few weeks of no trains:
It looks like at least this one shot at Coxo was taken without either of the @#$%& cheap telephoto extenders - and I didn't even have to employ my patented PhotoShop Ailments Phoamite Philter:
Compare the above to John Gruber's photo of the very same train on page 23 of the May, 2015 issue of TRAINS magazine . . .
The rest of the roll, taken with the fuzzifying 3X extender as the train rounded Windy Point, is definitely NOT worth dealing with.
- El Greengo Curmudgeoño de los Locos Viejos y Verdes
aka Der DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHaber
* Added 05/15/15: Thanks to Ernie Robart's meticulous notes, the date has been determined to be August 29, 1967.
** Added 01/24/19: I was traveling with my former college room-mate Max Power of Denver, and two of his railfan friends from high school, Keith Kirby and Roger Callendar, each of the latter was a president of the Rocky Club in the early and mid nineteen-nineties, respectively. We joined two other fans watching the show from the hillside above the 'S' curves, who turned out to be Ernie Robart and Olaf Rasmussen. Fifty-two years later, minus a few days, I was privileged to spend some time with Max, Keith & Roger at Como last August 22, and with Ernie & Olaf in Chama and at Cumbres the following weekend.
Edited 13 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2019 06:42PM by Russo Loco.
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