Re: Another blast from the C&TS past: '71 ops & '72 brochure + links to photos
| October 17, 2021 01:24PM |
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Tank =OR= Earl =OR= drgw0579 Wrote:
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> In 1971 the format was to run the train from
> one end of the railroad for a few weeks, then
> run across to the other end & run trains from
> that end for a few weeks, then swap back.
If so, one of the swaps from Chama to Antonito took place on Labor Day Weekend -
. . . When two friends and I were camped at Osier for a couple of nights. The first day we were there #483 (with a numbered cab and unlettered tender) ran through eastbound and the second day she ran through westbound — see [ngdiscussion.net] for pics.
Late the following year the C&TS ran Three Great Events – Full-Moon Dinner Trains to Osier – followed by their first Foto Freight on October 22.
For a few photos of the dinner trains see [ngdiscussion.net]; for several of the Toltec Rattler foto freight see [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> In 1971 the format was to run the train from
> one end of the railroad for a few weeks, then
> run across to the other end & run trains from
> that end for a few weeks, then swap back.
If so, one of the swaps from Chama to Antonito took place on Labor Day Weekend -
. . . When two friends and I were camped at Osier for a couple of nights. The first day we were there #483 (with a numbered cab and unlettered tender) ran through eastbound and the second day she ran through westbound — see [ngdiscussion.net] for pics.
Late the following year the C&TS ran Three Great Events – Full-Moon Dinner Trains to Osier – followed by their first Foto Freight on October 22.
For a few photos of the dinner trains see [ngdiscussion.net]; for several of the Toltec Rattler foto freight see [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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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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