Thank You, Scott -
It was a real treat – though a bit exhausting – to be able to help Ernie with this. We MAY be doing a slide show for the
TRAINS mag 50th Anniversary Charter on August 25, which would include a lot of Tom Gildersleeve's early sixties photos along with several of Ernie's and some of mine from 1968.
Ernie also sent me around 200 negs from the 476-478 break-in run to Lava on 04/23/68. Lo-res copies of several of the scans are posted on the thread starting at [
ngdiscussion.net] — which is now well down on the fourth page from the top of the NGDF, so you may have missed it.
- Russ
p.s. Ernie has promised to send some negs of the very last "Cumbres Turn" operated by the D&RGW, on July 18, 1968, and also of the VERY last D&RGW narrow gauge revenue freight — #483 delivering loads to Farmington on 08/31/68. I MAY get some of them posted by their respective 50th anniversaries, but do kinda hope that there are fewer than 200 from each run
. . .