Dick is absolutely right in his remeberances. There are not a lot of folks that know how lucky Dick and I were. The other person that had the run of Norden was Richard Steinheimer. The opertators, during this period were Danny Tiel, Sandy (Forgot laat namee), Harry Hanns and Shorty Tiel (No relation to Danny.) Shorty, Danny and Harry on request would route traffic for us on #1 track so we could get pictures. This would happen on the Reno Fun train as well of #5 and #6. Obviously it was a different story for freights because of power requirements and traffic between Soda and Andover. We were the first to know when the rotaries ran, because they would tell us, incluidng special moves. Norden and the operators was a railfans dream. Dick and I were afforded the luxuary of staying in the operators houses. Of course we were trespassing on SP property but no one ever said anything. One man who was on our trail but never turned us in was James Lynch, but that is another story at another time......