Re: "Extra 483 East" - 10/16/70 (more pics)
| October 16, 2020 06:21PM |
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Hello again -
Since posting the above nearly ten years ago, I have acquired a far superior scanner and even managed to improve my Phraud-O-Shop® skills a little, so here are a few more pics from that most memorable Autumn day of Fifty Years Ago on the Narrow Gauge.
Sid McKinney keeping a sharp eye out for rocks on the track as we round Windy Point with the weather closing in:
Two ex-Sperry-ments with a borrowed super-wide-angle lens — my two students Amnaj and Pravidya in the cab of #483, and our Conductor Eddie Martinez posing in front of the well-equipped outfit car 04982 that accompanied #483 on all of the C&TS' equipment moves from 09/20/70 through 10/28/70:
#483 poses with her usual eastbound consist of 'parlor-lounge' 04982, tool car (boxcar 3316), and caboose 0503 during the water and rest stop at Cumbres.
That's Herb and Eddie off to the right:
The lonely outpost of Osier, Colorado, as seen from the cupola of caboose 0503 on an increasingly dreary day:
#483 added three gondolas full of new ties to her train at Osier:
The D&RGW had scattered carloads of ties all along the Alamosa - Durango mainline during 1966-68 to add to their expenses that justified abandoning the railroad. They proved quite useful to the C&TS in the building of a yard west of Antonito.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/2020 12:15PM by Russo Loco.
Since posting the above nearly ten years ago, I have acquired a far superior scanner and even managed to improve my Phraud-O-Shop® skills a little, so here are a few more pics from that most memorable Autumn day of Fifty Years Ago on the Narrow Gauge.
Sid McKinney keeping a sharp eye out for rocks on the track as we round Windy Point with the weather closing in:
Two ex-Sperry-ments with a borrowed super-wide-angle lens — my two students Amnaj and Pravidya in the cab of #483, and our Conductor Eddie Martinez posing in front of the well-equipped outfit car 04982 that accompanied #483 on all of the C&TS' equipment moves from 09/20/70 through 10/28/70:
#483 poses with her usual eastbound consist of 'parlor-lounge' 04982, tool car (boxcar 3316), and caboose 0503 during the water and rest stop at Cumbres.
That's Herb and Eddie off to the right:
The lonely outpost of Osier, Colorado, as seen from the cupola of caboose 0503 on an increasingly dreary day:
#483 added three gondolas full of new ties to her train at Osier:
The D&RGW had scattered carloads of ties all along the Alamosa - Durango mainline during 1966-68 to add to their expenses that justified abandoning the railroad. They proved quite useful to the C&TS in the building of a yard west of Antonito.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/2020 12:15PM 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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