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Earl Knoob

July 04, 2001 10:30PM

My dad was a longtime modeler and railfan. In July, 1967 he decided to take his oldest son (me) on a road trip to see the Colorado narrow gauge in his brand new 1967 Mustang. On our trip from Phoenix to Durango, we stopped in Farmington, found the yard and asked some guy unloading a box car if the train was running today. He said go north you'll find it around Bondad (wherever that was).
Sure enough, we found the train pulling away from Bondad Tank. We ran ahead to the crossing and caught 487 complete with that Giant wedge plow slicing through the weeds, that big Lunkenhimer whistle clearing the way.
too cool....
As we were packing to head home several days later, we heard 473 (with Andy Payne running) blast (and I do mean BLAST)out out of town with 10 dump gons loaded with slag ballast. I will never forget that whistle as long as I live.
way too cool..............

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How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	william	July 03, 2001 01:37AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Les Jarrett	July 03, 2001 08:32AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Kevin Cook	July 03, 2001 09:17AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Les Jarrett	July 03, 2001 09:32AM
The Little Train	AC Woodward	July 03, 2001 12:26PM
Re: The Little Train	Les Jarrett	July 03, 2001 12:53PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Jim Burrill	July 03, 2001 09:16AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Duane Richardson	July 03, 2001 09:55AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Glenn Butcher	July 03, 2001 10:03AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Bill Calmes	July 03, 2001 12:13PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	william	July 03, 2001 12:29PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Fred T	July 03, 2001 12:33PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	John West	July 03, 2001 12:40PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Mike Trent	July 03, 2001 02:44PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Kevin	July 03, 2001 03:46PM
Re: How I caught the bug!/grandfather to blame	Kevin	July 03, 2001 03:59PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	DvV	July 03, 2001 03:41PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Herb Kelsey	July 03, 2001 04:54PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!! PIC	Carl Hess	July 03, 2001 05:46PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Chile John	July 03, 2001 06:26PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Grant Houston	July 03, 2001 09:20PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Tommy	July 03, 2001 09:57PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!! PIC	Mike Oestreich	July 03, 2001 10:00PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Shane Schabow	July 04, 2001 07:18PM
Youth - middle age	DvV	July 04, 2001 08:44PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!! PIC	Boris Serena	July 04, 2001 01:24AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!! PIC	Greg Scholl	July 04, 2001 07:21AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!! PIC	Don Richter	July 04, 2001 11:53AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Tom Kneib	July 04, 2001 01:20PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Phil Hackman	July 04, 2001 07:38PM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Earl Knoob	July 04, 2001 10:30PM
Lunkenheimer&std gauge bug PIC	Mike Oestreich	July 05, 2001 10:32AM
Re: How I caught the bug!!!!!!!!	Josh McNeal	July 05, 2001 02:39PM

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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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