Re: "Dark" places on the narrow gauge - Falfa Siding

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> > . . .  BTW, does anyone know of
> photos of
> > Falfa siding - another rarely if ever photo-
> > graphed siding that saw frequent use in
> > later years for separating eastbound helpers
> > returning to Durango and westbound helpers
> > from Gato . . .
>
>
> Here you go, Olaf -
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> One of Ernie Robart's relatively rare color slides
> of D&RGW freight operations, taken at Falfa Siding
> on July 5, 1967.  SFAIK, this one hasn't been
> posted before:
> [attachment 59611 19670705-18-Falfa.jpg]
> Photo copyright © 1967, 2012 by
> Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
>
> There's also a photo by Ernie of the NPS Special
> passing Falfa Siding eastbound on Nov. 23, 1968
> — it's the fourth one on
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 62221.
>
> I found no photos of the siding at Falfa on John
> West's site.  A quick look through The
> Friends' collection of Tom Gildersleeve's photos
> shows a few shots of a set-out at Oxford in the
> early sixties that I had mis-remembered as Falfa,
> but nothing else.    

I have it in my mind that there is a photo of 2 gons tipped upside down by the track at Falfa, taken during track reclamation I believe! Or am I just dreaming?

Wayne from Oz