Re: A few more from the '09 315 trip

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Scott Turner Wrote:
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> > If you've ever done an eastbound photo charter
> > on the C&TS, you probably know this location.
> > Between Sublette & Toltec siding there's a nice
> > set of S-curves with a cut at the end that
> offers
> > a great vantage point to shoot from.
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> What you mean-um 'eastbound', Kemo Sabé?

Yes, yes... My brain was thinking "from the east" while my fingers were typing eastbound. Already corrected.
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> Being at least a dozen years younger, you had an
> easier time getting to a better vantage point
> — but my shot that afternoon shows the train
> was heading west:

Funny story about that. I rode a 315 charter the previous year as well, WESTBOUND out of Antonito and had a photo runby at the same spot. For those who've not been here, the climb up to the top of the cut is short, but steep and very loose. When we got back on the train a woman - 40 something years old - sternly complained that such locations were all well and good for "young folks" like me, but not so much for her older crowd. I gently let her know that I was - at that time in 2008 - 56, at least 10 years older than she was.

In her defense, I've never been known to act my age.

Scott