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Hello once more -
This closeup of the first car confirms that it's loaded with rail, which puzzles me greatly:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
— If the line was about to be abandoned, what on earth was the rail for???
Through – not around – yet another patch of weeds:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Farmington at last (minus a "Photo-shopped" phoamer in the background):
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
In the long-ago age before "selfies", Ernie handed his camera to a fellow railfan for this portrait while the train was stopped at the depot in Farmington:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
The shadows are getting long as loads are spotted – and empties picked up – at an oilfield supply company in Farmington:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
(To be concluded.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
This closeup of the first car confirms that it's loaded with rail, which puzzles me greatly:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
— If the line was about to be abandoned, what on earth was the rail for???
Through – not around – yet another patch of weeds:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Farmington at last (minus a "Photo-shopped" phoamer in the background):
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
In the long-ago age before "selfies", Ernie handed his camera to a fellow railfan for this portrait while the train was stopped at the depot in Farmington:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
The shadows are getting long as loads are spotted – and empties picked up – at an oilfield supply company in Farmington:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
(To be concluded.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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