Re: My first trip to the Narrow Gauge

What a wonderful photo story! The photos are fabulous, and the story is one you just couldn't make up. My wife doesn't read many NGDF posts, but she did read this and marveled at the pictures and the story. Your emergency stop meeting up with the westbound train on the crossing near the Monero turnoff would be almost unbelievable if it wasn't for real life. This is where a few seconds can make a life changing difference. Driving east, a train could certainly appear on that crossing with very little notice even without a snow storm.

I also like the two Flagstaff photos. My friend and fellow Cloudcroft branch researcher Vernon Glover made a number of trips from Albuquerque to Flagstaff for logging steam, but I never managed to work out a way to get there from NMSU/Las Cruces on short notice without a car. Having no car certainly made chasing steam, especially the narrow gauge, a challenge in the early sixties. And I wasn't the only one - Joe Hereford and Ernie, for example, took the bus to Alamosa in late December 1965 to photograph the freight / snow plowing action without a car (that story might make a good future thread).

Thanks for posting your story - it sure made my day!