Re: Merida

I never said my photos were any good however! I had two piles of prints...one for decent ones and the other envelope reads "mostly blurred".
Speaking of Dave Conrad, ironically he was on our trip, and I didn't know it until a couple of years ago. He sent me a photo myself with a NdeM 4-8-4 behind me in the shop at Aguascaliente. It was the last northern to be shopped(#3046)there.
A funny sidebar to this. On the Mexico trip in 1963 there was an instance where are train stopped in a remote junction where two lines came in to our line. Our private pullman was always on the rear and we had a rear platform which always had someone on it. Anyway all of us got out to shoot a former CNW 2-8-0 coming off the branch. Then a few minutes later a second one appeared as well. Our passenger train started to depart, and Conrad stuck around to get the second train, and we had to pull the air to retrieve him!
It was one of the most interesting moments of the trip. On the all day ride from Pueblo to Mexico City on the Narrow Gauge, our leader John Vickers had his 35mm camera slip off his shoulder while leaning out of the train, and it was in a town some place while we were moving. He got off at the next place, where an apposing local freight met our train. John took the freight back to look for his camera but never found it, as a local probably made off with it. One neat thing down there, was watching the woman get hot water from the engines at the stops. Also riding the streetcars of Vera Cruz and seeing woman breastfeeding their baby, which was not so accepted in the U.S. like it is now! Drank lots of bottled water and pop that trip.
Greg Scholl