Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> In November 1967 I was in a holding pattern,
> waiting for word from the Air Force Officers
> Training School about reporting to Lackland Air
> Force Base. At the same time my brother Wolf(gang)
> was getting ready to head from the CU campus in
> Boulder to Trieste, Italy, for a two year research
> position at the International Institute for
> Theoretical Physics as part of his PhD program in
> High Energy Physics. Actually, the only high
> energy I could relate to was in the coal fire of a
> steam locomotive. Anticipating a long separation
> we agreed to meet in Alamosa for a two day chase
> of 493 and her Chama bound freight. I had been
> alerted by Ernie Robart of the pending freight
> movement scheduled for November 21.
>
> This was a pretty unusual operation, the second
> freight in a row heading from Alamosa to Chama
> without a continuing onward movement to Durango.
> The previous train on November 9 had brought empty
> flat cars for lumber loading to Chama, where the
> 493 met 476 headed for shopping in Alamosa, and no
> train to Durango.
>
> On this chase my brother took at least some of the
> still pictures, while I focused on 8mm movies,
> which is why I show up in a couple of photos (I
> haven't been photo shopped out yet). Just as an
> experiment I thought I would include a few low-res
> frames from the movie for a little color, as well
> as to fill in some gaps
>
> Here is 493 heading down the 3-rail race track
> with 17 box cars of drill mud on the
> seventh-to-last revenue freight from Alamosa
>
> [attachment 54244 LR1082.jpg]
>
> Well, I managed to step into the picture here, one
> of the very few times that happened.
>
> [attachment 54245 LR1072.jpg]
>
> 493 is barreling across the Conejos River bridge
>
> [attachment 54246 LR1093.jpg]
>
> In Antonito took on coal at the Red Devil coal
> loader
>
> [attachment 54247 LR1104.jpg]
>
> From Antonito we followed the train up the valley
> to Fergusons trestle
>
> [attachment 54248 SnapShot250.jpg]
Awesome set of photos Olaf! I think Jim Marcus was out shooting film on this train as well, now I wonder if you were in his film!! Thanks for sharing.
William
aka drgwk37
