Re: C&TS - 42 Years Ago. July, 1976
| July 17, 2018 02:20PM |
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With the train back together, 483 and 484 blast off from Lobato Notice the nice "melon" colored snack car mid-train...with RGS-style herald.
Next location is what would later be known as "Dalton". Then it was just the Forest Service road above Lobo Lodge.
Another unimaginative photo angle. Here we also experience the weather condition known as the "traveling shade" which occurs when there is a breeze from the south that perfectly matches the speed of the train. If your running, it's nice. You get to work in the shade....
On to the second crossing of Highway 17.
more boring angles, and traveling shade. John Oldberg did a nice job of loading 483 up with coal here.
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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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