Re: Osier in the "Olden Days" . . .

Tank Smith Wrote:
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> I think this was an early (maybe even the
> first) Moonlight Special with dinner at Osier,
> which would set the date as Aug. 24, 1972.


"{Very} Close, Sailor — but {not quite a} cigar . . . "

Per the flyer advertising said happenings, a framed copy of which is hanging in my denning room* among a dozen or so photos and paintings of steam locomotives (mostly narrow gauge), the date of the first Great Event was August 25, 1972:


For another of Ernie's photos from August 25, and several of mine from the 2nd Great Event on 09/22/72, see [ngdiscussion.net].

The day after the third Great Event, the C&TS staged the first of its REALLY Great Events — the 'Toltec Rattler' Foto Freight of October 22, 1972.
Here's the train arriving at Osier, IIRC around noon:


For the rest of the story see [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.

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

p.s.  The Rattler wasn't really a Phraud-O-Phreight™, since no effort was made to re-letter the locos or the caboose as D&RGW.

*  Too open for a den, but too small for a living room.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/10/2021 12:08PM by Russo Loco.