Night Photo Shoot at Osier on October 3rd ...

John Cole Wrote {on another thread}:
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> Last I heard there are only 7 tickets
> left for the MOW train on Oct. 3rd.
> It should be a great time on a train with
> restored MOW equipment that hasn't run
> together in probably half a century or more
> in some cases, so this train should be UNIQUE!
>
> On top of a full day on the train on Saturday,
> your ticket buys you admission to the OPERATION
> of pile driver OB, and right after that the steam
> powered derrick car OP the next day Sunday Oct.
> 4th. I would say it is safe to say that both cars
> operating on the same day hasn't happened since
> the Rio Grande days of the 1960's (if even that
> late), and you can see both in the same place,
> same day!
>
> Ticket holders get admission to Ernie Robart's
> slide show in the CRF on Friday night for 2 hours
> of viewing some of his 9,000 slides of the last
> years of Rio Grande operation as well as
> chronicling the herculean effort of those first
> volunteers who showed up to do what they could do
> to help preserve the narrow gauge that we know as
> the CATS.
>
> Your ticket money proceeds is going to fund
> historic preservation work that the Friends do at
> the CATS, (such as the wheel and bearing fund to
> purchase wheels and bearings for the RPO, 053 cook
> car, and the emigrant sleeper car undergoing
> restoration in Colorado Springs), so coupled to
> our free labor I cannot think of a way to get more
> bang for your ticket money than that!
>
> If you like taking pictures of RUNNING historic
> trains doing just what they did almost a century
> ago, and not just some stuffed and mounted rusting
> hulk slowly returning to its natural state, please
> consider supporting us.


AMEN, John -

I am looking forward to a GREAT weekend!!

And - to help you sell those last seven tickets - I have written to Tim Tennant and Alan Loomis offering to provide two (2, count 'em, 2) Graflex flash guns and a dozen or more big Press-22B bulbs for a quick-&-dirty evening or night photo shoot at Osier, depending on what time we get there, and how much time we have before we need to get going back to Antonito.

Tim wrote back that it's fine with him, IF it's O-K with Conductor Loomis and IF there is enough time, so I have gotten the big carton of bulbs down off the shelf in my garage and will bring everything along on the train in hopes that we will be able to pull this off.

Meanwhile, I suggest that anyone interested in getting a shot or two while a couple of us run around popping off flash bulbs to get familiar with his or her camera's "Night Scenery" setting (or equivalent) just in case ...

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender