Re: Russo's picture of walking the top
| April 14, 2024 08:03PM |
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John West Wrote:
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> I was thinking about that picture when I wrote my
> post, glad you posted it. Have no idea why, but I
> bet he had a good reason. IIRC that is the only
> picture I can remember of a Rio Grande trainman
> walking the tops while out on the line. I'm sure
> there are more, but if my pictures are any indi-
> cation it did not happen all that often.
Here's one taken by Tom Gildersleeve back in 1963, John -
It looks to me like the brakeman is getting on top of a car that's being set out while it is still moving:
Photo copyright © 1963, 2005 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Somehow I doubt he's going to tie it down on a mainline switch, anyway . . .
- Roosso
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> I was thinking about that picture when I wrote my
> post, glad you posted it. Have no idea why, but I
> bet he had a good reason. IIRC that is the only
> picture I can remember of a Rio Grande trainman
> walking the tops while out on the line. I'm sure
> there are more, but if my pictures are any indi-
> cation it did not happen all that often.
Here's one taken by Tom Gildersleeve back in 1963, John -
It looks to me like the brakeman is getting on top of a car that's being set out while it is still moving:
Photo copyright © 1963, 2005 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Somehow I doubt he's going to tie it down on a mainline switch, anyway . . .
- Roosso
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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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