Re: D&RGW @ Sublette, New Mexico = 05/28/68 . . .
| July 16, 2018 05:21PM |
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Jim Callaway Wrote:
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> Great shots. I always wanted photos of the
> train at Sublette without vehicles parked there.
O-K, Jim - your wish is my command (almost) -
There ARE vehicles in the photo, but SFAIK the two locomotives belonged to the D&RGW and the two pickup trucks to railroad employees:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Looking in the opposite direction, the only powered vehicles to be seen rely on steam pressure — I hope that's acceptable:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
(Note that most of the trees fifty years and fifty days ago were not nearly so large as they are currently . . . )
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> Great shots. I always wanted photos of the
> train at Sublette without vehicles parked there.
O-K, Jim - your wish is my command (almost) -
There ARE vehicles in the photo, but SFAIK the two locomotives belonged to the D&RGW and the two pickup trucks to railroad employees:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Looking in the opposite direction, the only powered vehicles to be seen rely on steam pressure — I hope that's acceptable:
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
(Note that most of the trees fifty years and fifty days ago were not nearly so large as they are currently . . . )
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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