Re: The Bridge on the Whiplash Road . . .
| January 27, 2022 01:30PM |
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The trestle at m.p. 287.50 in your Memorial Day '66 photo above was replaced by a culvert in 2010, Olaf -
Over which the engine is passing in this shot taken almost exactly 44 years after yours — May 26, 2010:
The pile of rubble at the lower right is all that was left of the trestle.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. My All-Wheel-Drive Ford Escape shown waiting at the crossing above made it up your "road" to The Whiplash roughly five years later. Having made it past Akins' Crossing on the middle level to the top of the mesa and across the upper loop without incident, I took my eyes off of the road for ½ second and – BANG!! – ran over a big rock hidden in the sagebrush. Luckily the oil pan was O-K, but the drive shaft was pretty badly bent and I got thoroughly shaken up driving in to Sublette where I had arranged to meet Ian Rattray to swap conveyances. Rattie got stuck driving my seriously limping car directly back to Antonito instead of to Chama first for lunch with Roger . . .
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/29/2022 01:01PM by Russo Loco.
Over which the engine is passing in this shot taken almost exactly 44 years after yours — May 26, 2010:
The pile of rubble at the lower right is all that was left of the trestle.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. My All-Wheel-Drive Ford Escape shown waiting at the crossing above made it up your "road" to The Whiplash roughly five years later. Having made it past Akins' Crossing on the middle level to the top of the mesa and across the upper loop without incident, I took my eyes off of the road for ½ second and – BANG!! – ran over a big rock hidden in the sagebrush. Luckily the oil pan was O-K, but the drive shaft was pretty badly bent and I got thoroughly shaken up driving in to Sublette where I had arranged to meet Ian Rattray to swap conveyances. Rattie got stuck driving my seriously limping car directly back to Antonito instead of to Chama first for lunch with Roger . . .
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/29/2022 01:01PM by Russo Loco.
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