Hello again -
Ernie returned to Chama on Sept. 29 – fifty years ago today – a couple of weeks after the GG&BG movie train had arrived from Durango; as usual for late September, fall colors were at their peak. #483's makeup as freight locomotive #550 had been enhanced with the addition of "Grand Mountain R.R. Line" lettering on her tender, but there was still no number on her cab
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Photo copyright © 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
A depot for the village of Progress and what appears to be a livery stable had been constructed at Lobato
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Photo copyright © 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
I believe the fake water tower had also been completed by that time, but I don't have a photo to post.
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Roosso