Welcome to the club. As you scan your old stuff and start posting it the next challenge is to figure out what you took a picture of 50 years ago. If you were like me you were too lazy to take notes. Fortunately with Kodak processed slides they dated and numbered them for you. But B&W negs can be a real challenge. Often it takes a lot of detective work and piecing together info from different places. I lost a lot of the info pieced together over the years when my old website died.
My notes gathered from wherever about the trip in question indicated it was a Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS trip run as part of a Mississippi River cruise on the Delta Queen. The train was their through NYC sleepers plus some coaches added by UP for "local" passengers. It ran from Cheyenne to Ogden on November 11, 1961. I paid $22.50 for a coach seat. The fact I have a ticket price suggests somewhere in my collection of crap I either found the ticket or maybe a flyer or some such. Here is the train leaving Green River.
Trying to get this discussion back to narrow gauge, I might mention one of the big losses when my website crashed is I lost a lost of data on my various C&TS and D&S pictures over the years. My DRGW stuff was posted enough places that it was relatively easy to reconstruct a new DRGW ng. set of galleries with captions, but my 1970 to 2009 ng. pix are going to be a battle to provide accurate caption info. I learned long ago my memory is a very bad source of factual info. The only good news is I did have tendency to put little pieces of paper into folders, so I do have some trip flyers and some such. Other than that I am highly dependent on those Kodak date stamps.
JBWX
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