Steam & Excursion > Let's Hope The Laundry Was In This Thanksgiving 60 Years Ago!

The date was November 24, 1957 in Ft. Collins, Colorado when Ross B. Grenard, Jr. snapped this great photo.

Here he caught Colorado & Southern #806 with a southbound extra train 28 cars pulling though town at 25-miles per hour.

There can be no question but that the crew of #806 is wasting no time getting underway on this day. After all they want to be home in time for Thanksgiving dinner!

Martin



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/21/17 08:20 by LoggerHogger.

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A Classic!
Bob

The youngster to the left is enjoying the show!

Cliff Rutherford
Grain Valley, MO

Wow, all I can say it WOOOOWWWWW!! This photo is superb. The smoke output, the kid running to the road to see this locomotive, the automobiles, etc. make this photo a CLASSIC! Thank you for sharing.

Looks like possibly a number of beet cars for delivery to the Great Western.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Amazing! Thank you for sharing. Too bad I missed this era.

Mike ONeill
Parker, CO

Looks like there is more than just smoking for the rail fans smoke here. Oh how nasty it must have been if one had there windows open.

Is my math bad or does someone have a calculator with dead batteries ?

SEVENTY years ago ??

Please, how about only Sixty !

Great shot but I missed it by 14 years, not cruising Mason Street until 1971.

Wow. I would hope the fireman could have cut back on the firing valve. That's wasted heat. Lasted too long to be sanding the flues. Imagine doing that today in PC Ft. Collins.
Great shot. I would be nervous as engineer doing 25 up this street, but people did have more sense then when it came to staying out of the way, plus not nearly the traffic.
Had 1522 not developed bearing issues on the way out there for the BNSF EAS, we would have been going up the street. Sure sorry we missed that one. Would have gone through Wind River Canyon also.

train1275 Wrote:
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> Is my math bad or does someone have a calculator
> with dead batteries ?
>
> SEVENTY years ago ??
>
> Please, how about only Sixty !
>

My math is fine - it is my fingers that let me down.

Martin

Very impressive picture!

Larry

SUPER EXCELLENT PLUS!
The crew actually had plenty of time to make it home for Thanksgiving Dinner because Thanksgiving Day was not until four days later on the 28th.
ALLEN