Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Hello one last time today -
>
> The next two photos were taken well east of Gato
> – I'm not sure exactly where – and
> present a bit of a quandary
: the
> first shows the train approaching around a distant
> curve, with a clear view of tracks in the
> foreground and yet
. . . . there's no
> following closer photo of the train! The
> very next shot on the roll is the overhead view
> also shown below
:
> [attachment 51460 681123f04+05.jpg]
>
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by
> Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
>
> The only explanation I can come up with is that
> the train was moving so slowly on the weed-covered
> right-of-way that Ernie fell asleep waiting for it
> to round the curve and forgot to press the shutter
> button
. . .
>
> This next series appears to have been taken across
> the river from both the tracks and the road, and
> – judging by the shadows – well into
> the afternoon
:
> [attachment 51461 681123f09.jpg]
>
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by
> Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
>
> [attachment 51462 681123f10.jpg]
>
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by
> Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
>
> [attachment 51463 681123f11.jpg]
>
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by
> Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
>
> The following is Ernie's last photo from November
> 23, a Saturday fifty years ago
:
> [attachment 51464 681123f13.jpg]
>
Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by
> Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
>
> It's late afternoon – nowhere near dusk
> – but IIRC the road along the tracks used to
> end about here, and a lengthy round-about detour
> almost to Pagosa Springs was necessary to get from
> this point to Chama. Ernie's journey –
> and ours – will resume on the morning of
> November 24, 1968, in Chama
. . .
>
> (To be continued.)
Looking at the broadside pic of 483, that certainly looks like Steve Connor running (he was a big guy). I wonder how they got around the crew district rules about east and west end engine crews. Maybe he was lined up for the Chama-Alamosa leg, and they had no one to run out of Durango (Payne was out taking pics again?) so, they gave it to Connor....