Re: Martin Hansen Post On Trainorders

guymonmd Wrote:
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> What would be even better is if there were some
> real livestock that needed to be transported from
> Chama to grazing pastures along the line in the
> mountains.
> It will never happen, but I can dream.....

It's been tried. Back in 2011, Pete Lerro hired a rancher to bring his cattle to the Osier Stock Pens, where we would stage a loading scene with a stock train. Everything went great until we tried the loading part. The problem was that the cows had other ideas....or perhaps they thought this was a for-real ride to Burger King:

Arriving at the Stock Pens

Round 'em up?

The rancher tried mightily, but could not get any of these guys to even approach the loading chute. I suppose that back in the day, more extreme measures would have been applied, but we had no intention of harming any animals in the making of these photos.

It has been my experience that bringing animals into scenes with phraudo-freights (TM) fails much more often than it succeeds.

/Kevin Madore