Re: "Dark" places on the narrow gauge - Back to Bocea (?)

Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> . . .  BTW, does anyone know of [any] photos
> of Falfa siding - another rarely, if ever, photo-
> graphed siding that saw frequent use in later
> years for separating eastbound helpers return-
> ing to Durango and westbound helpers from
> Gato . . .

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Here you go, Olaf -
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> I found no photos of the siding at Falfa on John
> West's site.  A quick look through The Friends'
> collection of Tom Gildersleeve's photos shows
> a few shots of a set-out at Oxford in the early
> sixties that I had mis-remembered as Falfa,
> but nothing else.    


Olaf et al -

OOooops — I was too quick on the draw and shot myself in the foot again with that last "nothing else" statement.  Here's just one photo by Tom Gildersleeve that fits in between his shots of #497 and #491 climbing Bocea Hill on 10/20/62 and his sequence of a set-out at Oxford a few miles farther on:

Photo copyright 1962, 2017 by Thomas Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.

At first glance I thought "Aha!  Finally!!  Here's one of the mysterious Bocea Loop.  But further contemplation leads me to think it's just north of the Highway 160 crossing:  not only is #497's whistle blowing, but there's a small dirt road on the engineer's side of the train — which according to the Google map posted above would correspond to a location a few yards north of 160 but not match the map a few dozen yards south of what we're apparently now calling 'Bocea Loop'.

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