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Thanks to Steven Dickey, we have
another picture of a Beautiful Vintage Aircraft doing what it does
best.... flying thru the Air at full speed. |
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Sunday at Osier, Opening weekend... Locomotive 488
came into osier on it's first revenue run with Train 2. |
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Doesn't 488 look sharp. |
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Locomotive 488 has been doing great, steams well
and rides well. |
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Its early morning, 488 is ready to come out of the
shop, but I had to wait a few minutes. The Track Crew was doing
Maintenance on Track One... |
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In the picture you can see Julian and Joseph
working on exposing Ties to check the spikes and such... |
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Its Monday and Soni and I have 488 on Train 215... |
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Locomotive 488 takes water from the plug at
Sublette and I take a quick moment to capture a picture for all of
you out in Internet Land. |
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Now here is a few shots for my Friend Dean...
Locomotive 488 and Caboose 0306... |
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That evening we hooked up Caboose 0306 and tied
her into the Train right behind the Parlor for a Deadhead run to
Antonito. |
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Caboose 0306 hasn't been lettered yet, but I think
it looks pretty sharp... |
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Caboose 0306 and Locomotive 488. |
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Caboose 0306 ran Deadhead or empty to Antonito and
returned Wednesday on Train 215 with FRA Officials... they had a
great time and I was very honored to meet them. |
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Ain't that a great shot, I thought my Buddy Dean
would enjoy these shots. |
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The cars are part of the
collection at our Connecticut Antique Machinery Association. We made
removable, 3-piece covers to keep winter snow out of the cars. Only
one of the cars has received any work to the car bodies; both need
new floors to replace patches on top of patches. The one car which
has been painted took about 40 pallons of linseed oil and paint!
Me and my Friend Bruce
Edgerton were Joking about these Cars, I thought they may have been
a version of a Narrow Gauge Covered Hopper, Ha Ha!!!, thanks Bruce
for the Photos.... |
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I would like to thank my Friend
David Dickey for these Photo's, They were taken on Opening Day... |
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Here is me.. doing my thing on
484... |
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It is very rare for me to see many
photos of myself, so I must say I appreciate these photos very
much.... |
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Thanks to David and His Brother
Steven for the Photos they have shared with the Website... Steven
has sent me alot of Beautiful Picture's of Old Restored Aircraft...
and those will also be on the site. |
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And there I go on 484 on Opening
Day. Thanks Guys. |
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I viewer of the website Craig Kumler
wanted to see some new picture's on the progress of the Spur Track
to Antonito Car Shop, well the Crew is still working on it, in
between regular assignments.,. they will soon have the Work Track
Spur behind Fort Knox Connected into the rest of the Track work. |
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Well its June 7th and we have run our first Helper
of the Year, Jeff Stebbins and I were on the Road Locomotive 484 and
Marvin and Steve Montano were on Helper 488, in these picture's
Helper 488 is backing up to the road Locomotive after 484 pulled the
Train across Lobato Trestle. |
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And now another few Picture's from
John Sporseen, another view of the Beautiful Work on restored Ilwaco
Railroad & Navigation Co Railroad Passenger Car. |
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Take a look at this Sign, it
explains itself. Thanks John for the Picture's. |
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Engineer Mike Nichols... what a
Gentleman of a Guy... |
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Coming into Durango and a view of
the Bridge... |
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The Animas flows underneath our
rails. |
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A detail of the Bridge and
coupler. |
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Caboose 0500... |
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Some of the Durango and Silvertons
Finest... |
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A view of the Durango Yards. |
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She's a beauty and soon 0579 will
come into service and I will be there to get the shots... |
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Its Tuesday Morning and we are in Chama,
Locomotive 488 and 484 will go up the Hill today with Train 216. |
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Marvin and Steve were in the 488 and I was Firing
for Jeff Stebbins. |
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Locomotive 488 has been running Great. |
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And today was a great run for me, the 484 steamed
like a champ. |
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Its good to have 3 Locomotive's up under Steam. |
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A look at Locomotive 488's nose. |
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A view from 488's tender of 484's nose. |
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Well its Friday Morning and Rio Grande Goose
Number 5 is in Antonito and ready to roll.... |
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I love this Machine and to see it right in front
of me in my hometown is a Dream come true... |
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She's a Beauty, |
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Now why is the Goose in Antonito... well..... |
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Parked right next to the Commission Office just
off the Highway and next to Antonito Depot are Four Private
railcars.... |
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Onboard are the Passengers who rode the these
Private Railcars over the La Veta Pass route into Alamosa and
eventually into Antonito, where they spent two nights onboard their
railcars. |
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It was a very rare visit to have these cars here
and to have Passengers ride the rails on the Standard Gauge tracks
into Antonito. We hope this can become a new opportunity for the
Cumbres & Toltec... Where else can you ride a Standard Passenger
Train right up to the front doors of A Steam Narrow Gauge Railroad. |
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Tioga Pass from Barstow sits next to the Antonito
Depot. |
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Tioga Pass brought up the rear of the Train. |
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Now on Friday we ran a special for the Passengers
on the Private Railcars. Half of the group rode out of Antonito on
the Galloping Goose to Osier and the other half rode the Bus to
Chama and boarded a Special Passenger Train to Osier from Chama. |
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The Goose Turned at Osier as did the Train and the
Passengers exchanged places and returned. |
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I had to run tail first into Osier, here I am on
488 at Cumbres. I have just turned 488 around on the wye and will
run Tender first to Osier to meet Galloping Goose number 5. |
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I had a great time, it was a fun run although we
did experience Snowfall at Osier and Cumbres, its june and still
snowing. |
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The Special train and the Goose meet at Osier. |
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We had a little Switching to turn the train and
Caboose.. You can the Goose ahead of me on the Main. |
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This is what it looks like to watch the Goose pass
by thru the Front Window of 488. |
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Ain't that a Great view. |
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The Goose at Osier. |
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Ain't that the biggest Chipmunk
you have ever seen!!!! |
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Viento Encantado lifts into the
Roswell Sky. |
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Yours truly is flying over
Roswell, New Mexico. |
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Lift off from Roswell.. |
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What a awesome day in Roswell.. |
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I had a Beautiful flight, almost
45 minutes and 4 to 5 miles. |
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It was a great Rally, the weather
was great and we flew both days.. |
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It is rare to fly both days. |
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That is a Beautiful Balloon. |
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Ain't it just Beautiful, love the
colors of the Balloons. |
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In the Background is the New
Mexico Military Institute.. |
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Hope to get back to Roswell next
Year, I didn't see any aliens. |
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Touchdown... |
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Now this is the best luck in the
world, as we drifted in the Balloon a BNSF Train came into town
right under us... |
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It was pretty cool, one of the
Crew members came out unto the front steps of the lead Locomotive to
take pictures of us. |
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Viento Encantado's Chase Truck
follows the Balloon right below us. |
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A view of the Rio Grande Gorge
Bridge near Taos, New Mexico. |
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The Sweet Grass Cafe in Taos, New
Mexico, Excellent Coffee... Twinky Approved!!! |
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Now I must admit I was lucky to
show up at Rainbow field in Albuquerque, New Mexico at just the
right time. |
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The Balloons were lifting off and
why??? It was Ellie's 80th Birthday, she is one of the Pioneering
women in New Mexico Ballooning and we were celebrating her
birthday.. |
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I loved being there for her
Birthday, and I was honored to meet her. |
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It was a Awesome day.. |
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Alot of Balloons flew, then came
back for Birthday Cake. |
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April 16th, Happy Birthday Ellie. |
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Lighter than Air and away it goes. |
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The Balloon is cold inflating,
next week I will have more of this celebration and Ellie herself. |
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Happy Birthday to me, Happy
Birthday to me, I just celebrated my Birthday the 7th of June.... I
will see you guys next week. |
