Dirk Ramsey Wrote:
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> Andy Payne, who
> wintered in Pueblo at the time, grabbed his camera
> and said "I now have exclusive shots" Andy was
> hosteling that winter.
Railroaders who travel with cameras are nothing new.
Some of the photos that have come down the years about the old SP narrow gauge between Mina and Keeler were taken by railroaders who had cameras in their grips. Some of the time they took photos of co-workers so that these could send a photo to their relatives. Other views were just of the train heading through the terrain.
One report was that a fireman carried a camera with him. And one of the machinists that worked at Mina (and later at Keeler and elsewhere) also seems to have taken a number of photos of the railroad and its equipment. And an assistant trainmaster/roadmaster working out of Mina assembled a scrapbook of photos of the crews, the trains, the wrecks, and the years before he arrived.
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