Re: Two cabeese from Alamosa to Chama & back - 08/28-29/67

Tank Smith Wrote (approximately):
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> Here is an example, the Aug. 28-29, 1967, E-W
> freights; on the 28th 493 is pulling the westbound
> into Chama, with 04343 and 0503 on the rear:
> [attachment 86284 1967-08-28r02s16493WBMP343.jpg]
> The 2nd caboose was for the brass down from
> Denver – note the tie and bright yellow hardhat.
> 0503 and the brass returned to Alamosa the next day
> on an eastbound.


By sheer coincidence, Tank -

John West and I were both in Chama those two days, although IIRC we didn't actually meet until about forty years later.  The "brass" on the train were accompanying John Gruber of Trains magazine; that's probably him in the yellow hardhat in the photo you posted above and at the left of the group of fans below, with his young son, watching #497 take water the following morning:


Several more of my b&w moldy oldies, many showing the two cabeese, can be found on the nine or ten posts starting at [ngdiscussion.net] and there's further discussion of this train at [ngdiscussion.net] et seq, including John West's photo of the eastbound with two cabeese rounding Windy Point on 08/29/67 at [ngdiscussion.net].

- Roosso