Re: NNG - Black Mesa & Lake Powell Railroad

bcp Wrote:
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> The truckless locomotives were brought in by
> truck, with the trucks on separate trucks.    


Thanks for the reminder, Bruce -

I vaguely remember one evening in the Fall of '70 or '71 when I was driving home to SoCal late one night after my annual trek to Narrow Gauge Country seeing a couple of large trucks hauling the locomotives – which I assumed at the time were diseasels – somewhere out on U.S. 160 between Cortez and Flagstaff.  During the following years I sometimes made at least part of the long journey across the Four Corners during daylight hours, and often took a break along the stretch where the railroad paralleled the highway but seldom saw a train.  It wasn't until the Autumn of '09 that I finally got a chance to get a couple of photos:




Seven months later, on my way home from the C&TS 'Springtime in the Rockies' excursion with green-jacketed #489, I got another chance:


This time the train and I were headed in the same direction, and I caught up with it in time to catch one last silhouette before the tracks swung away toward the northwest:


- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/25/2019 12:26PM by Russo Loco.