Good Afternoon -
All three of us – Ernie, Olaf, and I – followed #498 as she turned into the upper Los Pinos Valley after passing the crossing at Apache Road. There's a lot more left of the snow fences near mile 327, pictured here, than those in the last shot on my previous post
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Olaf's movies of the last eastbound freight passing the water tower at Los Pinos are part of the 'Last Freights' section of '
Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Freight Trains' — a new DVD available at [
kalmbachhobbystore.com] that was passed out last weekend to participants in the
Trains Magazine commemoration charter. Olaf may still have been hiding in the trees in the background when Ernie caught the train as it left the sharp curve below the tank and headed down the valley alongside the headwaters of the Los Pinos River
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Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . while I stayed on the old road near mile 326, and caught the little train from above the small pond on the hillside across the valley from the tracks
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Ernie turned back after taking the photo near mile 325, and took these two of the train passing the telegraphone shack at Los Pinos "Station" and then disappearing down the valley before he headed west to eventually catch up to #483 and the westbound train somewhere beyond Florida
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Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Meanwhile Olaf headed east toward Mogote and the road into Big Horn, and I high-tailed it to Antonito in hopes of intercepting the train somewhere to the south.
(To be continued.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/15/2018 07:47PM by Russo Loco.