Re: No Snow During Dinner in '72 . . .
| July 20, 2021 05:57PM |
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rehunn Wrote:
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> Count me in, logged in for the first time in
> several years to answer this. I vote for the
> Monday reincarnation with the 463 DIT! And maybe
> the redo of the Dinner Train with the snow! In
> previous convos Russ didn't remember the snow, but
> I have pictures!
No snow for the dinner train, ReHunn -
That was the '96 Trowbridge Charter. The dinner train was a cool evening – IIRC the steaks required jackhammers, and then you held cubes of meat in your mouth 'til they thawed enough to chew without breaking a tooth – but it was a beautiful clear night and the moon was full. The next day was equally cold before the sun got high – note the frost on the car-tops in this moldy-oldie photo – but JBWX was sufficiently defrosted to join the line-up east of the tank at Cresco; he's in there somewhere:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. There's no way anyone can re-take this photo next year — the aspen have grown so much that you have to choose between the 'Enter Colorado" sign, the Telegraphone Booth =or= the Water Tower. Focus on one, and the other two are blocked by the trees . . .
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> Count me in, logged in for the first time in
> several years to answer this. I vote for the
> Monday reincarnation with the 463 DIT! And maybe
> the redo of the Dinner Train with the snow! In
> previous convos Russ didn't remember the snow, but
> I have pictures!
No snow for the dinner train, ReHunn -
That was the '96 Trowbridge Charter. The dinner train was a cool evening – IIRC the steaks required jackhammers, and then you held cubes of meat in your mouth 'til they thawed enough to chew without breaking a tooth – but it was a beautiful clear night and the moon was full. The next day was equally cold before the sun got high – note the frost on the car-tops in this moldy-oldie photo – but JBWX was sufficiently defrosted to join the line-up east of the tank at Cresco; he's in there somewhere:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. There's no way anyone can re-take this photo next year — the aspen have grown so much that you have to choose between the 'Enter Colorado" sign, the Telegraphone Booth =or= the Water Tower. Focus on one, and the other two are blocked by the trees . . .
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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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