Re: D&RGW: Taking Water - and Movies - at Sublette in '68 . . .
| April 30, 2021 06:22PM |
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'75 it was, Tank -
But not a special. I'm not sure how often they were run, but IIRC #19 pulled these short trains from Cumbres Pass to Sublette (or Big Horn?) several times each week that year, at least in August and September. I couldn't find the post just now, but I vaguely remember a former C&TS employee stating that these highly-profitable trips made the difference between a losing and a winning season that year.
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Since we're already back in Sublette, here's one more water stop – on August 28, 1968 – with the addition of a non-crewperson who has been attacked by the PhotoShop "Foamite Filter" in all previously posted versions of this photo:
The D&RGW crew, from left to right, appear to be Lee Otteson, engineer on #484 that day; Jim Pearce, Road Foreman of Engines; and Gayle Cunningham, who was firing for Eldon Morgan on #483. If the unidentified red-shirted young whipper-snapper in front of #483 (apparently filming a bear, goat, ostrich, steer, yeti or maybe his dark blue FolksVagen Beetle lurking in the woods to the right of the right-of-way) is who I think he is, then his 8mm movies from that day are featured on the TRAINS magazine video Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Freight Trains, which SFAIK is still available from the C&TS store and from The Friends . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/22/2022 02:36PM by Russo Loco.
But not a special. I'm not sure how often they were run, but IIRC #19 pulled these short trains from Cumbres Pass to Sublette (or Big Horn?) several times each week that year, at least in August and September. I couldn't find the post just now, but I vaguely remember a former C&TS employee stating that these highly-profitable trips made the difference between a losing and a winning season that year.
* * * * *
Since we're already back in Sublette, here's one more water stop – on August 28, 1968 – with the addition of a non-crewperson who has been attacked by the PhotoShop "Foamite Filter" in all previously posted versions of this photo:
The D&RGW crew, from left to right, appear to be Lee Otteson, engineer on #484 that day; Jim Pearce, Road Foreman of Engines; and Gayle Cunningham, who was firing for Eldon Morgan on #483. If the unidentified red-shirted young whipper-snapper in front of #483 (apparently filming a bear, goat, ostrich, steer, yeti or maybe his dark blue FolksVagen Beetle lurking in the woods to the right of the right-of-way) is who I think he is, then his 8mm movies from that day are featured on the TRAINS magazine video Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Freight Trains, which SFAIK is still available from the C&TS store and from The Friends . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/22/2022 02:36PM 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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