Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> Drew Jacksich Wrote:
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> > Tom--you are right, this point has been obsured
> by
> > trees now 25ft. tall or more. In fact, you
> can't
> > see the track at all from this location now.
> The
> > day I shot this, my intention was to get down
> to
> > the crossing but I could see the lead unit come
> > around the curve in the distance so I just
> parked
> > here (on the wrong side of the road) and got to
> > take the photo. Some years later, I decided to
> > shoot a similiar sceene with F40's only to find
> > trees about 6 or 7 feet tall.
>
> I think I got one train there Drew, the Truckee
> Limited of 1971. I also have a slide
> taken by the late John Hungerford of AC 4274
> sitting there on December 1, 1957 while running
> as number 27, the last run of a Cab-Forward over
> Donner.
> I get the date correct? I'm going by memory and
> didn't look this one up.
Correct date. If you got the 1971 Truckee Ltd there, it was getting pretty dark.