Re: "It's Now or Never . . . " * -

Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> . . . as far as the link to your December 6 posting,
> the number 11 photo clinches the location of the
> long freight with 493 and of the hill the photo was
> taken from.  BTW, photo 10 is one of the most
> impressive photos taken in that area west of
> Chama, highlighting the peaks to the north.


I totally agree, Olaf -

The tenth photo, '681206b24, is one of only a very few that Ernie shot in 'Portrait' rather than 'Landscape' orientation.  It was posted earlier as part of a set of three, reduced in size but without any cropping; here it is "full size" for the NGDF, which SFAIK displays photos at no wider than 1000 pixels:

Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

Here's the very next one on the roll, which I didn't post previously 'cause it's so similar to the following one that shows the engine closer to the crossing.  This one shows a bit more of the mountains in the background and the hill to the right from which the first photo on this thread was obviously taken:

Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

And, speaking of scenic downtown Tiffany, Ernie's shot posted at [ngdiscussion.net] would be one of my all-time favorites if it weren't for the three power poles between Ernie and the engine.  I suppose that I could spend several hours "Photoshopping" them, but then the photo wouldn't be histœrically accurate.  So, being a lazy s.o.b. I'll post the previous one on the roll, in which the poles aren't quite so intrusive . . .

Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

IMHO, it's even better severely cropped:

Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender

*  "It's Now or Never" was a big hit when I was a young whipper-snapper — so long ago that I can't even remember name(s) of the artist(s) who covered it.



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 11/07/2019 05:35PM by Russo Loco.