Re: P-Boxes in their "Golden Years" . . .
| August 21, 2017 12:42PM |
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Hi, All -
Here are a few photos from the historic "olden days" of the C&TS – the P-Boxes hard at work . . .
Labor Day Weekend, 1971 - the C&TS' first year hauling two-legged livestock:
Roughly a year later – September 22, 1972 – the second "Moonlight Dinner Train" en route to Osier:
And another three years after that – September 25, 1975 – a busy Thursday near the peak of Fall Colors:
My tired old eyes see twenty (20, count 'em, 20) P-boxes – and a "shorty caboose" – rounding Windy Point on 09/25/75:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/2017 12:57PM by Russo Loco.
Here are a few photos from the historic "olden days" of the C&TS – the P-Boxes hard at work . . .
Labor Day Weekend, 1971 - the C&TS' first year hauling two-legged livestock:
Roughly a year later – September 22, 1972 – the second "Moonlight Dinner Train" en route to Osier:
And another three years after that – September 25, 1975 – a busy Thursday near the peak of Fall Colors:
My tired old eyes see twenty (20, count 'em, 20) P-boxes – and a "shorty caboose" – rounding Windy Point on 09/25/75:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/2017 12:57PM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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