Re: A memorable 315 trip from a few years back

Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> Scott, I love your photos.  I was likely standing
> next to you, or at least nearby when you took
> the crew photo.


I'll second both those sentiments, Olaf -

Although I don't seem to have my own version of the crew shot at Big Horn in my archives, so I may have been off exploring the tail of the wye with Ernie at the time.  I do have a rather less formal portrait of some of the crew taken during the water stop at Sublette, and I too must have been standing pretty close to Scott for the Rock Tunnel run-by (not that there's a huge choice of positions at that location, and he obviously got a much better spot than I did):


Come to think of it, I think that was the one-way trip about two weeks after the two-day Antonito-Chama round-trip behind #315 where you and I got re-acquainted about forty years after we had met two or three times chasing the D&RGW during 1966-68, and it was after we got back to Antonito on September 14 that we talked each other into riding on the 27th and split the cost of bringing Ernie along for a hard-core foamers' reunion.  I spent the nearly two weeks between the two trips exploring other parts of Narrow Gauge Country, including Marshall Pass, the DSP&P rock wall below the Palisades and the west portal of Alpine Tunnel, Gunnison and Lake City and, IIRC, a convoluted path from Lake City to South Fork to (almost) Creede by rail and then a couple of days in Silverton and then the RGS loop back to Antonito via Telluride and Durango.  Anyway, I sure am glad that my path has crossed yours and Scott's several times over the previous dozen or so years of chasing #315 on the C&TS.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
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