Re: #498 heading east to Alamosa in August, 1968 . . .
| March 28, 2018 12:24PM |
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Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> Didn't you say previously that they picked up
> something between Cumbres and Alamosa?
> Maybe a bulldozer?? Maybe I am confused
> with some other run.
That was the last revenue freight eastbound over Cumbres Pass, Greg, on August 29, 1968 — the trip being commemorated by Trains magazine on August 25, 2018 . . . A dozer on a flatcar and a boxcar of tools, etc. were picked up at Toltec Siding and hauled to Alamosa. This was also the last run of K-37 #498:
> Speaking of Telephoto's I bought a cheap one
> around 1972 and was not happy. Never used
> another one. I later bought a Pentax 6x7 with
> a standard 35mm (Doorstop today, right). It
> used to cost $1.00 per shot, and the film was
> 10 shots per roll. We were careful what we
> clicked back in those days. Today the guys
> are spoiled as they do amazing movie-like se-
> quences with those shutters wailing in the wind
> at 1000 frames a second seemingly!!!
I bought a Mamiya 6x7 with a 180mm lens in 1975, Greg -
The 180mm lens on that format camera was slightly telephoto, so you probably had a 135mm lens, which would have been equivalent to a 55mm 'normal' lens on a 35mm camera. All of my AFT shots* were taken with that camera and lens, although I also got a 4.5x6 cm back that I used mostly for B&W and got 14 shots per roll instead of 10. Mamiya lenses were VERY sharp but the maximum shutter speed was only 1/400 of a second, so most of my action shots had to be "coming at you" or "going away" to minimize blur.
- Roosso
* See [ngdiscussion.net] et seg, et seq, et seq . . .
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/2018 12:26PM by Russo Loco.
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> Didn't you say previously that they picked up
> something between Cumbres and Alamosa?
> Maybe a bulldozer?? Maybe I am confused
> with some other run.
That was the last revenue freight eastbound over Cumbres Pass, Greg, on August 29, 1968 — the trip being commemorated by Trains magazine on August 25, 2018 . . . A dozer on a flatcar and a boxcar of tools, etc. were picked up at Toltec Siding and hauled to Alamosa. This was also the last run of K-37 #498:
> Speaking of Telephoto's I bought a cheap one
> around 1972 and was not happy. Never used
> another one. I later bought a Pentax 6x7 with
> a standard 35mm (Doorstop today, right). It
> used to cost $1.00 per shot, and the film was
> 10 shots per roll. We were careful what we
> clicked back in those days. Today the guys
> are spoiled as they do amazing movie-like se-
> quences with those shutters wailing in the wind
> at 1000 frames a second seemingly!!!
I bought a Mamiya 6x7 with a 180mm lens in 1975, Greg -
The 180mm lens on that format camera was slightly telephoto, so you probably had a 135mm lens, which would have been equivalent to a 55mm 'normal' lens on a 35mm camera. All of my AFT shots* were taken with that camera and lens, although I also got a 4.5x6 cm back that I used mostly for B&W and got 14 shots per roll instead of 10. Mamiya lenses were VERY sharp but the maximum shutter speed was only 1/400 of a second, so most of my action shots had to be "coming at you" or "going away" to minimize blur.
- Roosso
* See [ngdiscussion.net] et seg, et seq, et seq . . .
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/2018 12:26PM by Russo Loco.
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