Re: 497 and 487 Cumbres turn 10-3-67

"This was probably the last long train on the narrow gauge"

This is probably wrong. The third to last westbound freight in June 1968 was a full length train. That is the train with two empty tank ends on the head flat cars. I have 1200 feet of S8 mm movies of the entire trip of this train, except W.Ck to Pag Jct. EWR only caught several short pieces of it, and raised dust on Arboles relocation road during pacing movies, but only for a short bit as he saw what his wheels were doing and departed to catch it at Florida Tank. Russel T. Sharp has 35 mm of the train that have been scanned. Richard MaGee has 35 mm of the train, and the late Paul Hoffer's 35mm photo that he took are lost.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2019 07:31AM by OC MP62.