Re: Congrats to Both of You ...

John West Wrote:
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> Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> > First time for me was 1956 so what 59 years
> ago?
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> Yeah, but I bet you weren't old enough to drink!
> Trips on the San Juan in a bassinette don't
> count.
>
> JBWX

I was born on the last day of 1950. This trip was roughly the middle of 1956, so that makes me 5.5 years old. Dad has a shot of me climbing up into the cab of 490 at Antonito during a service stop. Back in those good old days nobody cared if a 5 year old just helped himself to the engineers ladder I guess!!! Anyway a shot of me on the rear of the train at Alamosa. I was pretty big for that age, but then I weighed 10 pounds when I was born, so that explains a lot, eh!!!
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Happy Trails.
Greg

PS I have a few shots around but they aren't very good. One memory from that trip was my brother and I playing around with a little puppy owned by one of the families of a Latino kid in Durango living in MOW equipment there. We always enjoyed the RG not only for the good steam, but for the adventure of being out in the middle of nowhere and with interesting scenery.