Western Railroad Discussion > Chasing the Legendary Lompoc Local- Part II of IV

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Photo 1.  This was supposed to be a dramatic pacing action photo-  but at 10MPH...  well.
Photo 2.  This poor DRGW caboose has suffered just about every abuse short of burning-  but it begs to be worked into a local photo.
Photo 3.  Green something.  (Sorry- I don't know my floras)

Photos 4&5.  Once in Lompoc, they back into their caboose and are ready to shove up to the mine.  Dear god-  this thing looks worse than the Grande car!!!

At this point I ran into John Roskoski!  I used to see John fairly often back in the 70's in Santa Barbara-  we did some frantic 40yr catching up and traded contact info as the local slipped away....

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/13/21 22:28 by BoilingMan.

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Way back in the 1970s, I recall Mexican railroading looking like this. "Oh how the mighty have fallen!"

The caboose in photo #2 is not a Santa Fe car, it is Rio Grande.
Scott

sfdrrfan3 Wrote:
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> The caboose in photo #2 is not a Santa Fe car, it
> is Rio Grande.
> Scott

Ah!  So it is- my mistake.  Any idea how it ended up out here?
SR

I think the green stuff is Brocolli.

smf2mry Wrote:
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> I think the green stuff is Brocolli.
Used to ship lots of cars of that stuff in 60s and 70s
 

No idea why it is there, I didn't know it was!
Scott