Steam & Excursion > Earnie's Ridge Looking At Mud Tunnel

My friend Steve Forney and I hiked down to Earnie's Ridge with my 500mm lens to shoot the train coming out of mud tunnel. We were still shooting the train on the other side of Phantom Curve when a plane came by and then turned and went over us pretty close.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

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You never know what you are going to see when chasing a train.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

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Wacky-roger1942 Wrote:
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> You never know what you are going to see when
> chasing a train.

Isn't it fun when they do that for you!

Cheers,
Jack

africansteam Wrote:
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> Wacky-roger1942 Wrote:
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> > You never know what you are going to see when
> > chasing a train.
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> Isn't it fun when they do that for you!
>
> Cheers,
> Jack


It was a nice surprise.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

Rodger, where is that tunnel? Neat pic. Thanks for posting.

train671 Wrote:
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> Rodger, where is that tunnel? Neat pic. Thanks
> for posting.


MP 311.3 on the Cumbres & Toltec.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

Treat pictures!

The air crew were probably practicing low level flying. Kind of a neat training run. I had a friend who flew C130's kind of the this plane and the stories he told were amazing.

One time when my wife and I were staying in Ouray, I heard some jets and to my surprise, 4 warthogs dove down in the canyon for the Silverton side and flew up the canyon, then about 15 minutes later, they went to opposite direction, flew up the canyon and then almost went straight up to get out.

Of course no camera each time.

sptno Wrote:
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> Treat pictures!
>
> The air crew were probably practicing low level
> flying. Kind of a neat training run. I had a
> friend who flew C130's kind of the this plane and
> the stories he told were amazing.
>
> One time when my wife and I were staying in Ouray,
> I heard some jets and to my surprise, 4 warthogs
> dove down in the canyon for the Silverton side and
> flew up the canyon, then about 15 minutes later,
> they went to opposite direction, flew up the
> canyon and then almost went straight up to get
> out.
>
> Of course no camera each time.


Lucky me I had my camera with me.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

Interesting looking C-130 with that nose fairing and the ones on the aft fuselage. Maybe the pilot is a railfan and was collecting data on the NG operation?

It's a MC-130P and is probably out of the schoolhouse at Kirkland AFB, NM. Kirkland is the military side of Albuquerque International Airport.
MC-130's specialize in low level flying and prefer the dark. They do a lot of flying using Night Vision Goggles.
They're the official airline of the Green Berets.

Someone punched that plane in the nose!!

Friend of mine has an Airstream parked on a hilltop near Jemez, northwest of Santa Fe. They fly low altitude by his place all the time headed straight toward Antonito/Chama. V22 Osprey follow the same route.

I'll bet his lens cost a bit more than your 500mm and probably produced considerably high-resolution of you than you got of him !

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C130s are neat aircraft in all their variations. Damn things can land and take off just about anywhere other than water, and I wouldn't put that beyond their abilities if someone wanted it bad enough.

Greg Ramsey
Las Vegas, NV

Classiclights, that's probably a FLIR, forward looking Infra Red turret.

nycman Wrote:
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> Classiclights, that's probably a FLIR, forward
> looking Infra Red turret.

Oh, it's more then just a FLIR turret...

atsfm177 Wrote:
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> C130s are neat aircraft in all their variations.
> Damn things can land and take off just about
> anywhere other than water, and I wouldn't put that
> beyond their abilities if someone wanted it bad
> enough.

And in their "Gunship" variant they do a very effective job of screwing up military equipment and killing bad guys! We had some of the first ones over in SEA in the late 60s.

Old Bob (8th TFW) out in Lost Wages