Re: No turkeys, lamb or rhea - but cows at Willow Creek!
| November 26, 2020 01:22PM |
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Jimr260 Wrote:
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> Since it is Thanksgiving, where are the
> turkey/train pictures??
See [ngdiscussion.net] . . .
Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> Sorry, I don't have a "Turkeys on the Narrow Gauge"
> scene handy, but I can offer up "Cows at the Willow
> Creek Bridge", as Russo Loco has been working over-
> time to scan my slides from May, 1966. This one is
> hot off the scanner and shows 483 crossing the Wil-
> low Creek bridge about half way between Azotea
> and Chama on May 30,1966, with the last Rocky
> Mountain RR Club 3-day Memorial Day excursion.
> The cows have definitely been disturbed by this un-
> expected arrival from Durango.
It's a fun way to spend ThanksGiving Week remembering all those 3-day adventures, Olaf -
And getting to be the first one to see all these great photos from when we current "Old Timers" were the young whippersnappers that the "serious railfans" (a non-sequitur if there ever was one) had to put up with! I rode the very last 3-day trip about four months later – the Alamosa Kiwanis Club annual Fall Kolors trip at the end of September, 1966 – and the weather on the third day was about the same as for your trip, not the best for the slow color film of those times but I am sure glad we have the photos even if some of them are a bit unavoidably under-exposed.
Enjoy your Steamed Lamb, or Roasted Rhea as the case may be, and be sure Jack gets a good, meaty bone with his dinner!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2020 05:30PM by Russo Loco.
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> Since it is Thanksgiving, where are the
> turkey/train pictures??
See [ngdiscussion.net] . . .
Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> Sorry, I don't have a "Turkeys on the Narrow Gauge"
> scene handy, but I can offer up "Cows at the Willow
> Creek Bridge", as Russo Loco has been working over-
> time to scan my slides from May, 1966. This one is
> hot off the scanner and shows 483 crossing the Wil-
> low Creek bridge about half way between Azotea
> and Chama on May 30,1966, with the last Rocky
> Mountain RR Club 3-day Memorial Day excursion.
> The cows have definitely been disturbed by this un-
> expected arrival from Durango.
It's a fun way to spend ThanksGiving Week remembering all those 3-day adventures, Olaf -
And getting to be the first one to see all these great photos from when we current "Old Timers" were the young whippersnappers that the "serious railfans" (a non-sequitur if there ever was one) had to put up with! I rode the very last 3-day trip about four months later – the Alamosa Kiwanis Club annual Fall Kolors trip at the end of September, 1966 – and the weather on the third day was about the same as for your trip, not the best for the slow color film of those times but I am sure glad we have the photos even if some of them are a bit unavoidably under-exposed.
Enjoy your Steamed Lamb, or Roasted Rhea as the case may be, and be sure Jack gets a good, meaty bone with his dinner!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2020 05:30PM by Russo Loco.
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