Tom, great shot, and an even better story! I'd love to see more from this line.
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Fascinating shot! If the crew did not the locomotive, how did they make it across the bridges?
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| Posted by on March 12, 2010 | |
I remember this operation well from a story in Trains Magazine--April 1960--by Parker Lamb and Thomas Lawson: "How You Fixed for Shays?". The title was a clever play on Sharpie, the Gillette Parrot's late '50s television commercial: "How ya fixed for blades?" Parker Lamb's photos depicted the incredible rickety nature of this operation. It was a thousand wonders anything ever stayed on the track. Derailments were almost daily----as depicted in Tom's shot. Great memories of an operation that was somehow stuck in a time warp, even in the early '60s. Nice shot too!
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Holy smokes. Thats really in use in this photo. My first glance was its a recent picture someone took of an obandoned locomotive sitting in the middle of no where. Nice shot.
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| Posted by on June 19, 2012 | |
I believe it was former G&MO trackage, not SLSF. Frisco was way far north, and the GM&O came through nearby Tuscaloosa.
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