A few from the last day
| August 27, 2019 07:49PM |
The final train ran in darkness late Sunday night / early Monday morning. A few photographers with better self discipline than me caught it at daybreak, just as it was heading into the plant for the last time. As for me, well, I refuse to acknowledge there are two 5 o'clocks in a day. However, we had a beautiful day on Sunday to catch the entire morning run and the eastward (empty) movement of the afternoon trip. Having never actually railfanned it before, I was sort of learning in real time how things worked, so maybe not my best ever.
Afternoon run on Saturday, leaving the mine just after sunset and about two hours late:
Final daylight departure from Page on Sunday:
The Sunday afternoon run just past Kaibeto eastbound and down on Sunday:
The Sunday morning run further south, along US 160 closer to the mine:
Just about done loading in the evening light on Saturday:
Afternoon run on Saturday, leaving the mine just after sunset and about two hours late:
Final daylight departure from Page on Sunday:
The Sunday afternoon run just past Kaibeto eastbound and down on Sunday:
The Sunday morning run further south, along US 160 closer to the mine:
Just about done loading in the evening light on Saturday:
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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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