Re: Last Train to Farmington, Fifty Years Ago (+ 5 days), by Ernie Robart
| September 05, 2018 03:37PM |
>
> * The story I've heard (from more than one
> source) is that Rio Grande Motorways had attempted
> to deliver the wallboard by truck a few weeks
> before, but Farmington Lumber & Hardware refused
> the shipment as it was not by rail as they had
> specified. Motorways had to haul it back to
> Alamosa and load it on flatcars for proper
> delivery . . .
>
Russ, I believe that is correct. Have heard that somewhere before also. In fact might have been from Ernie when we
were working with his films.
By the way good work on the images. Fills in some blanks for me where he didn't have movie films. Glad Ernie was around
to see this stuff and close enough to make several trips. Interestingly he got most of the trips that year. The ones he missed were
the ones we got in early June. I was happy we got the three days worth in June, but would have been sad to be doing those last ones.
Greg
> * The story I've heard (from more than one
> source) is that Rio Grande Motorways had attempted
> to deliver the wallboard by truck a few weeks
> before, but Farmington Lumber & Hardware refused
> the shipment as it was not by rail as they had
> specified. Motorways had to haul it back to
> Alamosa and load it on flatcars for proper
> delivery . . .
>
Russ, I believe that is correct. Have heard that somewhere before also. In fact might have been from Ernie when we
were working with his films.
By the way good work on the images. Fills in some blanks for me where he didn't have movie films. Glad Ernie was around
to see this stuff and close enough to make several trips. Interestingly he got most of the trips that year. The ones he missed were
the ones we got in early June. I was happy we got the three days worth in June, but would have been sad to be doing those last ones.
Greg
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