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Josh McNeal

December 05, 2019 03:25PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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Funny, I was growing up in the 80s watching and riding the D&S, and "many years" later was the way I felt it took for the 497 to return. But, the 497 was only down for 17 years, about the amount of time she has been out of commission on the C&TS. 2002 seems like yesterday. At least these last 17 years she's been mostly protected from the elements and souvenir hunters.

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493 leaving Alamosa - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Olaf Rasmussen	December 05, 2019 08:58AM
Re: 493 leaving Alamosa - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Tomstp	December 05, 2019 09:43AM
Re: 493 leaving Alamosa - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Greg Scholl	December 05, 2019 11:25AM
Re: 493 leaving Alamosa - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	guymonmd	December 05, 2019 12:40PM
Re: 493 leaving Alamosa - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Greg Scholl	December 05, 2019 12:57PM
Re: 493 leaving Alamosa - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Josh McNeal	December 05, 2019 03:25PM
Re: 497 in Monero Canyon - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Olaf Rasmussen	December 05, 2019 02:24PM
Re: 497 in Monero Canyon - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Russo Loco	December 21, 2019 12:09PM
Re: 497 in Monero Canyon - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Olaf Rasmussen	December 21, 2019 10:18PM
Re: 497 in Monero Canyon - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Greg Scholl	December 22, 2019 06:58AM
Re: 497 in Monero Canyon - 52 years ago today - 12-5-1967	Olaf Rasmussen	December 22, 2019 09:10AM

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