Re: 493 with lumber loads at the "old" 2nd crossing, 11/22/67 -

Beautiful, Olaf -

It looks to me like the first two were taken from almost the exact same spot where my friends and I first met you and Ernie in mid-August about 15 months before.  IIRC, the tracks were buried under a lot of slippery weeds after several weeks of no trains due to a washout on the Farmington branch, and it took nearly an hour for the two-engine freight to work its way past us gaining ten or twelve yards at a time while we all sat on the hillside and ate lunch.

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

p.s.  It looks like the last two are out of order, with #3 actually taken several minutes after the others as the train passed Mudhen Marsh / Perry's Pond at the third crossing, near Coxo.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/17/2021 01:48PM by Russo Loco.