Re: What you mean-um 'Timeless', Kemo Sabe?
| May 25, 2017 08:18AM |
A few "Phraudographs" from this past summer. All are digital images converted to black and white (gray scale) in Photoshop.
4944. No. 315 at Chama, cropped slightly to take a modern day observer out of the right margin of the image.
5024. Extra 315 East at the exit from the Narrows. The fence posts and beautiful ballast with prominent shoulders are pretty clear indicators of the 2016 photo date. Not sure if the telegraph line should be visible in this photo, but probably it should.
5351. Crossing the Los Pinos River eastbound. Again, the ballast is a pretty clear clue to the age of the image.
For comparison, look at Russ Sperry's 1968 photo of the westbound freight in the rain near Sublette. Notice the very different track structure with the 'native ballast' where the ballast is peaked at the track centerline, and sloped to the tie ends for drainage.
CVM
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4944. No. 315 at Chama, cropped slightly to take a modern day observer out of the right margin of the image.
5024. Extra 315 East at the exit from the Narrows. The fence posts and beautiful ballast with prominent shoulders are pretty clear indicators of the 2016 photo date. Not sure if the telegraph line should be visible in this photo, but probably it should.
5351. Crossing the Los Pinos River eastbound. Again, the ballast is a pretty clear clue to the age of the image.
For comparison, look at Russ Sperry's 1968 photo of the westbound freight in the rain near Sublette. Notice the very different track structure with the 'native ballast' where the ballast is peaked at the track centerline, and sloped to the tie ends for drainage.
CVM
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.