0579 was also in the wreck
| October 06, 2018 04:16PM |
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Maybe some of you are tired of hearing about 0579, but it was also in this wreck. One of the clips right before the crash shows the 0579 on the end of the train with the bad guys jumping off. When we started the restoration of 0579, we felt the frame damage was the result of the wreck. However there is a photo in Richardson's Chasing Trains book that shows 0579 in the dead line looking mostly intact. So maybe the actual wreck was executed with just a couple cars.
Bill Kepner
Bill Kepner
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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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