Re: Agents in final D&RGW NG years

Roger has some incredible b&w photos. He was in the Navy at the time going to Nuclear Weapons school at Los Alamos and kept track of all the narrow gauge movements during his time in school, and that was a good part of 1967 before he became the Nuclear Weapons officer for the USS Hancock. I traipsed along with him when he was shooting the California Zephyr in California and a lot of those photos ended up in his friend Karl Zimmerman's book on the CZ. Roger managed to say the wrong thing to a superior officer and was reassigned to river boat patrol in Vietnam and that knocked him off the aircraft carrier--we used to visit in the officer's club at Hunter's Point looking out on the Hancock in dry dock when it was being refitted--but he managed to get reassigned to the Vietnamese Naval Academy as an instructor, and then I started getting pictures of the one main north-south rail line in Viet Nam from him. He continues to take great pictures today, but most of his narrow gauge era material is unmatched in my book.

The other two fellows? We'll see. You got Denny and Jim right.

fritz



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/11/2009 01:14AM by Fritz Klinke.