Re: #489 crossing Lobato - and #315 - from the uphil side . . .
| December 31, 2019 06:46PM |
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Jack Spencer Wrote:
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> Yes it was 2008. 489 had only been recently
> rebuilt and 484 had been running as 485 for
> most of the season.
I was thinking 2008 or '09, Jack -
As that's when #489 was sporting the flying Rio Grande logo on her tender.
IIRC, the very last time that we Phraud-O-Graphers® were able to shoot from the east side of the trestle (or anywhere but the shoulder of the highway) was on September 14, 2009 — the second day of a fabulous #315 charter:
See [ngdiscussion.net] et seq for a few more photos.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/21/2021 01:23PM by Russo Loco.
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> Yes it was 2008. 489 had only been recently
> rebuilt and 484 had been running as 485 for
> most of the season.
I was thinking 2008 or '09, Jack -
As that's when #489 was sporting the flying Rio Grande logo on her tender.
IIRC, the very last time that we Phraud-O-Graphers® were able to shoot from the east side of the trestle (or anywhere but the shoulder of the highway) was on September 14, 2009 — the second day of a fabulous #315 charter:
See [ngdiscussion.net] et seq for a few more photos.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/21/2021 01:23PM by Russo Loco.
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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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