Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> The Chama engine dispatch log shows 493 and
> 480 taking the train from Chama to Alamosa on
> March 19, 1964. Same engines as had taken the
> two Cumbres turns to the pass on March 18. The
> photos you show for March 19 had to be taken on
> a different day. I will see if I can find that engine
> combination in the log
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Olaf Rasmussen Added:
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>
. . . it appears that the Tom Gildersleeve photos of
> 483 and 491 were taken on January 16, 1963 per
> the Chama engine dispatch log. Thanks again for
> posting those photos. 491 in Rio Grande days has
> shown up fairly infrequently on the NGDF. It's been
> fun doing this trivia pursuit, even if you and I may
> be among the few who care after all these years.
Right you are, Olaf -
As an insomniac dyslexic agnostic, I was lying awake last night wondering if there really was a dog (other than Otis, who was lying next to me keeping my back warm), when it occurred to me that having different engines the third day didn't make ANY sense, and planned to go back through Tom's photos this morning to double check the dates, so thank you for saving me the trouble. It appears that when copying photos from the backup disk he gave me years ago that I moved a group of five March '63 photos to my March '64 group,
so the mix-up is all my fault. Thank You for the corrections!! *
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Roosso (MUY) Loco
p.s. There are a great many photos of #491 in Tom's collection, many of which appear in his slide show and IIRC several were featured in the article he wrote for Classic Trains a few years ago.
* I thought about deleting the two out-of-place photos from my second post, but then your two posts – and this one – wouldn't make any sense. It looked like the best thing to do was just edit it appropriately, which I have now done.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2021 12:29PM by Russo Loco.