Re: GREEN Flags = The Leader!! (Most of the time ...)
| July 23, 2009 01:07AM |
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Geode et al -
At least there is ONE place where Roger did not beat me to it:
wading in the creek at Cresco Tank!
Warped Minds think (sorta) alike, as shown by the following - taken in the rapidly fading light of the golden-slanting summer-evening sunlight ofDurango The Border on August 25, 1972 - C&TS very first "Moonlight Dinner Train".
(Where was HDI back when I really needed it?):
1) Scouting the location ...
2) Checking composition and lighting ...
3) "Hey Boss ... The Train ! ... The Train !!", ... barely before sunset:
- Russo
IIRC, this first dinner train got back to Chama WELL after midnight; the schedule has been bumped forward a few times, and the train now returns by a respectable 10:00 p.m. or so - (while Foster's is still open ... ) -
Edited 7 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2009 11:03AM by Russo Loco.
At least there is ONE place where Roger did not beat me to it:
wading in the creek at Cresco Tank!
Warped Minds think (sorta) alike, as shown by the following - taken in the rapidly fading light of the golden-slanting summer-evening sunlight of
(Where was HDI back when I really needed it?):
1) Scouting the location ...
2) Checking composition and lighting ...
3) "Hey Boss ... The Train ! ... The Train !!", ... barely before sunset:
- Russo
IIRC, this first dinner train got back to Chama WELL after midnight; the schedule has been bumped forward a few times, and the train now returns by a respectable 10:00 p.m. or so - (while Foster's is still open ... ) -
Edited 7 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2009 11:03AM by Russo Loco.
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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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