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Re: Did Amtrak use old track #1 over Donner Pass?
Author: OTN
Date: 01-11-2019 - 22:45
Mike Pechner Wrote:
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> 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......
No Mike,
Not James Lynch but J.W. (Bill) Lynch. Remember all of you quite well.
Circia 1965--1988.
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> 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......
No Mike,
Not James Lynch but J.W. (Bill) Lynch. Remember all of you quite well.
Circia 1965--1988.
