Re: 492 vs a pick up truck
| June 20, 2018 11:51AM |
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Here's the page from Trains Mag, Sept. 1965 issue.
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It appears they are indeed doubleheading down the hill. I would imagine Jim Mayer had some interesting thoughts of this. Being as how his brother was killed doing this same move, and he was on a train that clobbered a car!
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It appears they are indeed doubleheading down the hill. I would imagine Jim Mayer had some interesting thoughts of this. Being as how his brother was killed doing this same move, and he was on a train that clobbered a car!
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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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