Re: Some Old Pictures from 2010 celebration
| July 16, 2019 07:22PM |
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Thank You for those great photos, Jason -
Especially the comparison of Ernie's famous 1970 shot in 'The Narrows' with your shot of the re-enactment. Since I was one of those re-enacting, I didn't carry my camera that afternoon. I also like the shot of Ed putting up with my caterwauling in the depot — he's the only person I know who was ever brave enough to accompany me, and I miss him A LOT. My daughter Cindy (Jackelopette here on the NGDF) caught this one of Ed and me on the re-enactment train somewhere near Lake Lobato:
Here's Ernie's 1970 shot of the gang replacing the bent rail at the new highway crossing, of which your last two shots show the 2010 re-enactment:
Photo copyright © 1970, 2010 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
While those guys were digging out the bent rails, three or four of us went out to the west end of town and "borrowed" two or three straight lengths from the D&RGW that the scrapper had kindly already un-spiked . . .
About half an hour after you took the shot of us old-timers at the crossing Cindy took this shot of another 2010 re-enactment:
. . . of Ernie re-lettering #483 on the day that the D&RGW turned her over to the C&TS — September 1, 1970:
Photo copyright © 1970, 2010 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2019 06:39PM by Russo Loco.
Especially the comparison of Ernie's famous 1970 shot in 'The Narrows' with your shot of the re-enactment. Since I was one of those re-enacting, I didn't carry my camera that afternoon. I also like the shot of Ed putting up with my caterwauling in the depot — he's the only person I know who was ever brave enough to accompany me, and I miss him A LOT. My daughter Cindy (Jackelopette here on the NGDF) caught this one of Ed and me on the re-enactment train somewhere near Lake Lobato:
Here's Ernie's 1970 shot of the gang replacing the bent rail at the new highway crossing, of which your last two shots show the 2010 re-enactment:
Photo copyright © 1970, 2010 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
While those guys were digging out the bent rails, three or four of us went out to the west end of town and "borrowed" two or three straight lengths from the D&RGW that the scrapper had kindly already un-spiked . . .
About half an hour after you took the shot of us old-timers at the crossing Cindy took this shot of another 2010 re-enactment:
. . . of Ernie re-lettering #483 on the day that the D&RGW turned her over to the C&TS — September 1, 1970:
Photo copyright © 1970, 2010 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2019 06:39PM by Russo Loco.
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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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