In one of those trips in the dvd my dad shot footage from the cupola of a caboose that was close behind the engine. There was a yellow box car(Refer) behind the tender, mostly for baggage I assume, then the caboose. Made for some neat shots watching cows running ahead of the engine and so forth. On the 56 trip I think they had two cabooses.
Speaking of Cabooses, in 1992 John Craft operated a Friday afternoon 3 engine train from Chama-Cumbres. We had two engines up front and the rear pusher was 497. We did a couple of runbys at Lobato Trestle, and on one of them I rode in the cupola right behind the tender of 497. That was pretty neat, and you got a sense of what it might have been like in Rio Grande days onboard watching a train struggle up the pass.
Now that I think of it there is a clip of this too. Its around the 34 second mark. I miss 497!!!
Greg
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