rockrdg Wrote:
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> I don't know if these photos have been shared here
> but looks like someone else was chasing this train
> as well. The link was shared by Ken Queen on the
> History of Durango Facebook Group from Franklin
> Adams's
flickr album account.
Thank you for the link, Bob -
Is there any chance that Franklin Adams himself was the photographer, or perhaps his father or other close relative? I'm not sure whether Jeff Stebbins accompanied Ernie Robart on that chase of the very last revenue freight operation on the D&RGW narrow gauge, but I do know that Stan Rhine was present (he's in one of Ernie's photos), and Al Chione may have been there as well. IIRC, Al sold sets of color slides in the sixties and seventies, and I know he was in Alamosa on 08/29/68 when the last eastbound freight tied up, so it's fairly likely than he headed west the next day and then chased the last Farmington turn on 08/31/68. It could be that the photos Adams posted are some that he had purchased from Chione.
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Roosso