Re: Moving on from Carbon Junction . . .
| December 03, 2022 01:23PM |
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Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> Thanks Greg Scholl, for posting your beautiful
> photos — I was hoping that my low resolution
> movie scans would encourage posting some
> clear views of the Farmington branch . . .
It would be pretty hard to top the two 35-mm "Little Train in Big Country" shots you posted at [ngdiscussion.net] above, Olaf -
But since you asked, here's one taken at the same location by Tom Gildersleeve a few years earlier:
Photo copyright © 1960, 2010 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Here are couple more from Tom. This first one is the same train featured in his "flying caboose drop" photo I posted earlier. I'm pretty sure this is south of Carbon Junction en route to Farmington:
Photo copyright © 1960, 2010 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
The same engine with a different train, a few days or a couple of years later,* crossing the large trestle that apparently still exists south of Carbon Junction:
Photo copyright © 1960, 2010 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Ernie Robart's B&W photos of the very last Farmington Turn operated by the D&RGW are posted in the thread starting at [ngdiscussion.net]; John West's beautiful color photos can be found on his site at [chasingtrains.smugmug.com].
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
* There seems to be a discrepancy in the dates of these four photos by Tom Gildersleeve. Both the notes that he gave me along with the digital copies of his narrow-gauge slides and the notes in The Friends gallery indicate all four were taken 10/19/60. But the cars in the two trains are clearly different, leading me to believe that two of the photos were taken on Wednesday, October 19 and the other two on Saturday, October 22, 1960. It's also possible that two of them were taken in October 1962, when Tom made another visit to Narrow Gauge Country that included following a train to Aztec and Farmington, but all of the photos he took on 10/17/62 show K-37 #491 as the locomotive, not #494 as in the four that I have posted on this thread . . . ???
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2022 07:38PM by Russo Loco.
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> Thanks Greg Scholl, for posting your beautiful
> photos — I was hoping that my low resolution
> movie scans would encourage posting some
> clear views of the Farmington branch . . .
It would be pretty hard to top the two 35-mm "Little Train in Big Country" shots you posted at [ngdiscussion.net] above, Olaf -
But since you asked, here's one taken at the same location by Tom Gildersleeve a few years earlier:
Photo copyright © 1960, 2010 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Here are couple more from Tom. This first one is the same train featured in his "flying caboose drop" photo I posted earlier. I'm pretty sure this is south of Carbon Junction en route to Farmington:
Photo copyright © 1960, 2010 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
The same engine with a different train, a few days or a couple of years later,* crossing the large trestle that apparently still exists south of Carbon Junction:
Photo copyright © 1960, 2010 by Thomas H. Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
Ernie Robart's B&W photos of the very last Farmington Turn operated by the D&RGW are posted in the thread starting at [ngdiscussion.net]; John West's beautiful color photos can be found on his site at [chasingtrains.smugmug.com].
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
* There seems to be a discrepancy in the dates of these four photos by Tom Gildersleeve. Both the notes that he gave me along with the digital copies of his narrow-gauge slides and the notes in The Friends gallery indicate all four were taken 10/19/60. But the cars in the two trains are clearly different, leading me to believe that two of the photos were taken on Wednesday, October 19 and the other two on Saturday, October 22, 1960. It's also possible that two of them were taken in October 1962, when Tom made another visit to Narrow Gauge Country that included following a train to Aztec and Farmington, but all of the photos he took on 10/17/62 show K-37 #491 as the locomotive, not #494 as in the four that I have posted on this thread . . . ???
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2022 07:38PM by Russo Loco.
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