Re: A narrow dirt road ambles past Lobato bound for Antonito . . .
| February 12, 2017 05:41PM |
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rninrvr Wrote:
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> . . . Looking at that shot I am having a hard
> time spotting 17, which then was probably dirt
> and crossed the old trestle just up creek from
> the RR one.
N.M. 17 is the dark streak about halfway up the photo on the left side; it disappears behind the low, round hill that's behind the helper. A dirt road until 1970, it dropped into the valley of Wolf Creek about half a mile upstream from the trestle, and crossed via a shallow ford, IIRC, although there may have been a small culvert or two under a thin layer of concrete – it's getting hard to remember those things after half a century! The road shows up a bit better in the left background of this 1962 shot by Tom Gildersleeve:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2002 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Ernie Robart and I were on the hill above Lobo Lodge when he took this super-telephoto shot of the very last eastbound freight exiting The Narrows at a dried-out Lake Lobato on August 29, 1968. The narrow dirt road was much more crowded than usual that morning:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2008 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Here's Ernie's photo of what the road - and the badly damaged track - looked like a mile or two closer to Chama in late June of 1970:
Photo copyright © 1970, 2010 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2017 06:39PM by Russo Loco.
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> . . . Looking at that shot I am having a hard
> time spotting 17, which then was probably dirt
> and crossed the old trestle just up creek from
> the RR one.
N.M. 17 is the dark streak about halfway up the photo on the left side; it disappears behind the low, round hill that's behind the helper. A dirt road until 1970, it dropped into the valley of Wolf Creek about half a mile upstream from the trestle, and crossed via a shallow ford, IIRC, although there may have been a small culvert or two under a thin layer of concrete – it's getting hard to remember those things after half a century! The road shows up a bit better in the left background of this 1962 shot by Tom Gildersleeve:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2002 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Ernie Robart and I were on the hill above Lobo Lodge when he took this super-telephoto shot of the very last eastbound freight exiting The Narrows at a dried-out Lake Lobato on August 29, 1968. The narrow dirt road was much more crowded than usual that morning:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2008 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Here's Ernie's photo of what the road - and the badly damaged track - looked like a mile or two closer to Chama in late June of 1970:
Photo copyright © 1970, 2010 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2017 06:39PM by Russo Loco.
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