Re: C&TS in Oct. '72 (pics: 483, 484, Toltec Rattler, 463, &c.)

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Earl Wrote:
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> > OK. got it. We have an unidentified
> > extra east after the Rattler's run ...
> >
> > ... Wonder why they did that?
>
>
> That's what I was going to ask YOU, Earl -
>
> Hopefully Rich Braden remembers!!


Yes, ask Rich. I have no idea. I was a 13 year old high school freshman in the fall of 1972.
>
> - El Greengo Curmudgeoño de los Locos
> Viejos y Verdes
> aka  Der
> DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHaber
>
>
> p.s. I figured you'd like all those shots of Jim
> in his Derby - was it one of those that you bought
> him?

Again, I was a kid in 1972, probably saw Jim on the engine with Rich that summer. He might have had his derby then, I don't remember. I didn'tget my first one until 1986 or so.

>        (This question was
> prompted by an exchange earlier this year): Earl
> Wrote:
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> > The pic with 489 on the train shows yours
> > truly in the background with the derby hat.
> > Stebbins didn't show up in Chama until a-
> > bout 1994.  I started the Derby thing,
> > Stebbins stole my idea.
>
> Russo Loco Confessed:
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> > I guess I'll have to plead guilty to stealing
> > your Derby Hat idea too, as I bought one
> > early in my Fillmore & Western days - circa
> > 1991 or '92 - to wear when playing fireman /
> > public relations "officer" on Thomas the Tank
> > Engine's American Cousin - their little wood-
> > burning 0-4-0, Sespe the Saddle Tank.
>
> Then Earl Confessed too:
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> > I stole the Derby hat thing from Jim Shawcroft,
> > who had one in the early 70's when he worked
> > in Chama.  I used to get cheap ones from
> Wool-
> > worth's in Durango.  When I got mine, I had
> to
> > get one for Jim too.