Re: OM in action - Jan. 12, 1974

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Here's one of Ernie Robart's best, and best-known,
> photos -
>
> I've posted this previously, but the faulty NGDF
> 'search' function makes it too hard to find it and
> create a link:
> [attachment 40382 740112-37.jpg]
> Photo copyright © 1974, 2004 by
> Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
>
> Methinks I recognize the derby-wearing dude poking
> out of OM's door, but who's that standing on
> #483's tender?
>
> - Gramps

That would be John Oldberg looking out of the pilot house. He wore some sort of fedora-ish hat. It appears to be John Coker on the tank of 487. I was 500 miles away attending sophomore high school classes in Arizona.