Re: 1960's Flanger/Spreader trains, Alamosa to Chama
| December 21, 2020 08:04PM |
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That photo is pretty typical, Olaf -
For both Ernie and Winter on the Narrow Gauge. John West caught a similar shot a few years earlier – see [chasingtrains.smugmug.com], and Tom Gildersleeve sent me this one several years ago that shows a flanger-spreader train arriving in Chama late in the evening on March 21,1963:
Photo copyright © 1963, 2005 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
. . . way more than 24 hours after it blasted out of Antonito on the morning of March 20:
Photo copyright © 1963, 2005 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/2020 12:29PM by Russo Loco.
For both Ernie and Winter on the Narrow Gauge. John West caught a similar shot a few years earlier – see [chasingtrains.smugmug.com], and Tom Gildersleeve sent me this one several years ago that shows a flanger-spreader train arriving in Chama late in the evening on March 21,1963:
Photo copyright © 1963, 2005 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
. . . way more than 24 hours after it blasted out of Antonito on the morning of March 20:
Photo copyright © 1963, 2005 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/2020 12:29PM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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