December 08, 2022 08:01PM
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Thank You, Guy and Scott -
Tom Gildersleeve took a huge number of winter shots during his three or four visits to the D&RGW in the early sixties, but nearly all of them were – like those from Day One of the Rattler Redux – taken in the beautiful conditions that often occur the day after a storm passes through. Olaf Rasmussen encountered bad weather several times on his adventures in the 'Olden Days', and I am really tempted to post one of my all-time favorite "moody" shots that he took on December 6, 1967, which I scanned for him a few years ago. Olaf recently began posting his photos from the day before at [
ngdiscussion.net], so I'll give him a day or two to tell 'The Rest of the Story' before giving in to the temptation to steal some of his thunder
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- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. Here's another AFT shot for Scott, taken almost exactly 1½ years after the one above — #4449 passing through the thriving metropolis of Mott, CA on her return to Portland with the
'Transcontinental Steam Excursion' on 04/29/77
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I had spent well over an hour earlier that morning removing some brush and even a small tree blocking the view from the site of the old Lookout Point Motel north of Dunsmuir in hopes of getting a good 'Going-Away' shot of #4449 heading up the Sacramento Canyon toward Mount Shasta – a reverse of the fifth photo on my post at [
ngdiscussion.net] – but after all that work all I got was a photo of a huge cloud of white exhaust with a white mountain behind
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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 12/10/2022 07:13PM by Russo Loco.
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