Re: Daylight train scene '84
Author: Hot Water
Date: 04-10-2021 - 07:50
SP 0-6-0 Wrote:
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> I was asking myself if this was an original
> Daylight train or the 1984 re-created Daylight.
>
> Then I found the info buried in the slide
> description: "Yuma, AZ. Taken - 06/10/1984"
Something is wrong with either the date, or the location of that photo. Because, on June 11, 1984 we had the famous "separation of the engine & tender" event just a few miles west of Del Rio, Texas (on the westbound return trip). So obviously we could NOT have been in "Yuma, AZ" on June 10.
> I like the clear stack. Hot Water, were you and
> Doyle on this trip?