Re: December 5 & 6, 1967 - Looking back
| December 10, 2023 01:18PM |
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Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> As Extra 497 East finished the climb to Azotea
> and the run on into Chama in the dark, Jeff and
> Ernie headed back to Albuquerque. I spent the
> night at the Shadrack in Chama, and the next
> morning chased 497 west to Navajo . . .
> On December 6 engine 493 made a morning Cum-
> bres turn with lumber loads, and in the afternoon
> ran to Alamosa with the combined lumber loads
> from Durango and Chama.
HEY, Olaf -
What's the big idea giving short shrift to the morning Cumbres turn on Dec. 6? Unless I have the date wrong, this gorgeous photo – one of my most favorite of all of your beautiful shots – shows the morning turn rounding the hill below Dalton:
This one from the day before I'm not so sure about, but it looks like Ernie must have been standing right next to you as the train pulled out of Auntie-Neato:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> As Extra 497 East finished the climb to Azotea
> and the run on into Chama in the dark, Jeff and
> Ernie headed back to Albuquerque. I spent the
> night at the Shadrack in Chama, and the next
> morning chased 497 west to Navajo . . .
> On December 6 engine 493 made a morning Cum-
> bres turn with lumber loads, and in the afternoon
> ran to Alamosa with the combined lumber loads
> from Durango and Chama.
HEY, Olaf -
What's the big idea giving short shrift to the morning Cumbres turn on Dec. 6? Unless I have the date wrong, this gorgeous photo – one of my most favorite of all of your beautiful shots – shows the morning turn rounding the hill below Dalton:
This one from the day before I'm not so sure about, but it looks like Ernie must have been standing right next to you as the train pulled out of Auntie-Neato:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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