Re: NNG - 1765 in Southern California

John West Wrote:
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> Good news for me.  The 1744 was the subject of
> my first roll of Kodachrome taken with a borrowed
> Argus C4 in on May 4, 1958 on the Knights Landing
> branch.


You beat me by about a month, John -

My first roll of railfan Kodachrome was taken chasing sister engine 1765 when she accompanied a gussied-up #2248 on what was SFAIK the last S.P. steam run in Southern California — north out of L.A. to Saugus, across the Santa Paula branch to Montalvo (a suburb of Ventura), and back to L.A. via Oxnard and Santa Susana:


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