Re: A few more from an '08 #315 trip

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.

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Being about 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 . . .

Scott Turner Wrote:
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> Funny story about that.  I rode a 315 charter the
> previous year as well, Westbound {cough} out
> of Antonito and had a photo run-by 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.


Same here, Scott -

I've never acted my age, at least not 'til recently, when being "only" ten years older than you – not twelve – is beginning to catch up to me.  I remember one time a few years ago when my daughter complained, saying "Daddy, you act like you're 13."   "Cindy," I replied, "I have a driver's license."   "O-K," she said, "16."

IIRC, you and I finally met face-to-face for the first time that evening following the charter, after swapping messages and posts here on the NGDF for a few years.  While you rode, I chased — and caught the return (eastbound) leg of your round trip from 'Roosso's Rock' (which, IIRC, I had discovered for the first time that afternoon), along the ledge above the top loop of The Whiplash:


I presume you are among the Phalanx of Phoamers Phraud-O-Graphers™ stretched out here along the lower leg of The Whiplash on 06/21/2008.  I'm pretty sure that's Alan Loomis behind the line a bit to the right of center near the top of the photo, but my tired old eyes just can't figure out which one of the others is you:


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



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 12/06/2020 08:39PM by Russo Loco.