Re: C&TS 1990s Part 4 - More Pics, and Questions . . .

Hello again, Earl -

As noted above, I'm pretty sure that the color photos of the #497+#487 double-header I posted previously were taken on Saturday, September 21, 1996 — a few days after the Jim Trowbridge charters on Sept. 14 & 15 and Sept 17 that year.  I presume that helper #497 proceeded on to Antonito on the 21st, and pulled Train #1 with the old flat-roof coaches westbound the following day:


Six frames later on the same roll of 2¼ film there's a shot of #497 passing Los Pinos tank westbound pulling the outside-framed home-made caboose, two boxcars, and then a string of clerestory-roofed coaches:


Was it standard practice in that era to keep the flat-roofed coaches on the east end and the clerestory-roofed coaches on the west end and swap engines between the two trainsets at Osier (since they couldn't be turned) but return the coaches to their home terminals?

Edit 04/12/20:  It turns out that these two photos were taken 09/26/96 — see Earl's posts below.

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



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/12/2020 01:24PM by Russo Loco.