Steam & Excursion > San Luis & Rio Grande quickie

Photo 1 - Steaming westward on June 19 is the SLRG passenger train from LaVeta, in the flats of the San Luis Valley five miles from Alamosa, with an ex-LS&I steamer in charge that I saw as a hulk of rust at Presque Isle in Marquette, MI in 1982 next to the LS&I main line in the weeds. Who would have thought?

Photo 2 - The same train at the depot in Alamosa.

Photo 3 - Kind of like a steam locomotive now, more steam locomotives than F-units now. SLRG's very modified F-unit from MBTA and Gettysburg Railroad sports an FT-style pilot and FT-style chrome headlight ring.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/10 22:43 by highgreengraphics.

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Just for fun, wouldn't these look nice in more appropriate territory such as this? At the Orange Empire Railroad Museum in Perris, CA a few days earlier, in D&RGW 4-stripe paint.

Happy railfanning! --- --- - --- JLH

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how about the 1100 and the Slug Set?
Are they seeing use to Monte Vista and Antonito?

Thanks for sharing! Glad to see the 18 living the good life. What's the latest on the 1744?

Rob
Kenner, LA
Operation Deepwater Horizon Response

If picture #1 isn't tomorrow's potd, then it ought to be! All three of these pictures are mighty fine pictures, thanks for posting them.

Con

The F unit looks like the love child of a Rio Grande and Boston & Maine F unit one night stand. I've seen much much worse.
Cheers,
Nick

1100's a beaut, and so's the 18! Nice jobs--thanks for showing. Kurt.

I drove along the weedy tracks almost fifteen years ago, imagining such a thing -- with not much hope. Well, to tell the truth, in my future-casting I never actually imagined such a classy operation. The F looks fantastic, the 18 does too. And I don't even mind the dome! It all works for me.

HGG, your photography is an inspiration. What camera equipment are you using? Thanks.

Hi, thank you all for the nice compliments. No superfancy gear used, just a Nikon D-80 and two kit-type Nikkor lenses, shooting high JPEG, vivid, hand-held, and 40 years experience, mostly with film of course. The new kicker is Photoshop, but just the consumer variety and not the pro type. I have learned that for TO, one needs to oversharpen just a bit. Other than that, especially in Photoshop, just a lot of guesswork. I intend to upgrade to a D-90, but the old camera body just keeps plugging along, so I stick with it. Along with trial and error, I have to credit the great folks right here on TO who helped me through the scary digital transition! --- --- - --- JLH