Re: I BEG YOUR PARDON

William...492 last ran in 1966, while 487 and 497 operated in 1967. My brother and my folks were out in 1967 and caught 487 and 497 running.
Yes it was cool to be there in 1968. I was 17 at the time, and not shooting with anything good but my brother shot my dads 8mm movie camera for the first time, and we have a pretty decent record of the 3 days chasing starting with 478 to Farmington and back. I do remember a lot of the stuff quite well, including eating breakfast across from the yard in some old restaurant with booths, almost across from the depot.
We chased on the dirt road from Ignacio to Gato shooting 498 behind us in a cloud of dust. We were pretty stupid back then!!! Went inside the Gomez store at Gato which was a time warp of course, just like the whole steam chase was when you look back at it being 1968, about 10 years after most other railroads were steamless!
Steamingly,
Greg Scholl
PS Someday we will do something with that 1968 stuff.