C&TS in Oct. '72 (pics: #483+#484 - Toltec Rattler, pt. 2)

Hello once more -

These are new scans of photos that have mostly been posted before -
starting with three of my favorites, in portrait format.  Note the frost on
the ties and tops of the cars in the first two.  If the third one looks a little
intense it's because I was ex-Sperry-menting with a new polarizing filter:


Here's Richard Braden (employee2) again, running helper #483, and Bowler-hatted Jim Shawcroft crossing Lobato Trestle on the road engine:


The second shot here is the only one of all my several hundreds of photos that made it into Tom Gildersleeve & Nils Huxtable's 1993 book, "Narrow Gauge ... then and now".


Here's the Hinmann car again - on the "chase" train - and diseasel #19 pulling #463 from Antonito.  Note the icicles hanging from the west portal of Rock Tunnel in the fourth shot:


After the stop at Rock Tunnel I switched to faster black-&-white film for some late afternoon and after-dark ex-Sperry-ments:*


- El Greengo Curmudgeoño de los Locos Viejos y Verdes
aka  Der DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHaber

p.s.  As noted elsewhere, the 'Toltec Rattler' was NOT a Phraud-O-Freight.   Both of the locomotives - and the caboose - were lettered for the CUMBRES AND TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD.

* As also noted elsewhere, "Ex-Sperry-Mental" probably means "Sperry is Out of his Mind" ...



Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2015 11:41AM by Russo Loco.