Re: C&TS 1990s Part 4 - One last Answer . . .

Earl Wrote:
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> I don't have any info on that other than if #497
> went east on 9/14/96 she would have returned
> west the next day, as engines did not lay over
> in Antonito. It was probably set up to have 497
> make a round to trip to Antonito on Sept. 14-15,
> then get a day in the shop on the 16th to do the
> Big Horn Turn on the 17th.


Thanks, Earl!!   That's good enough for me -

I'm going to assume I missed #463's early-morning departure from Antonito but was out and about early enough to catch #497 on #2 at Ferguson's Trestle around 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 15th – NOT the 26th – and then easily got to Los Pinos to catch her on #4 before driving in on that short stretch of the old road near m.p. 326 to catch #463 with Jim Trowbridge's charter an hour or two later:


So I do have a couple of shots of you in the cab – but it's #463, not #497 and 09/15, not 09/22 – and about a mile and a half farther up the hill from Los Pinos to Cumbres:


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



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/2020 06:27PM by Russo Loco.