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Day 63

Monday, March 2, 2020

A strange train. If you look closely the truck is jacked up on railroad wheels, and it is pulling two cars full of ballast that it is spreading between the ties. It pulls the two cars okay, but I think the brakes may be a little marginal. They squealed a lot and it didn’t stop […]

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Day 54

Monday, February 24, 2020

I finally left Bosque del Apache and headed West towards friend in Phoenix. Way up in the New Mexico high country is this. What is that? Well, it is the Very Large Array. From wikipedia: “The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomyobservatory located in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between […]

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Day 339

Sunday, December 29, 2019

I stopped for lunch just shy of Albuqueque, and trying to get back on the freeway I ended up in this mess…I hate most big cities…{!-{P ~Curtis in New Mexico! {!-{>

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Day 332

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Down on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Narrow Gauge Railway, aboard Galloping Goose #5! On the West end of Chama… And so ends the Galloping Goose part of my journey. Now it is one to Bosque Del Apache! ~Curtis in /\/ew /\/\exico! {!-{>

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Day 331

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Down on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Narrow Gauge Railway, aboard Galloping Goose #5! Two versions of steaming up inn the morning. ~Curtis in New Mexico! {!-{>

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Day 330

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Down on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Narrow Gauge Railway, aboard Galloping Goose #5! The Depot in Chama, NM. I don’t think Western Union still runs a telegraph there… 344 miles to Denver, and 7863 feet in Elevation. Cumbres Pass is over 10,000, and that part of the Cumbres and Toltec railroad is the highest […]

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Day 329

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Down on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Narrow Gauge Railway, aboard Galloping Goose #5! Inside the boxcar! The numbered posts are original mileage markers from the railroad, and indicate the number of miles by rail to Denver. ~Curtis in New Mexico! {!-{>

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Day 328

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Down on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Narrow Gauge Railway, aboard Galloping Goose #5! They have set up some displays of historical items in a couple of the cars by the Chama Depot. ~Curtis in New Mexico! {!-{>

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Day 327

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Down on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Narrow Gauge Railway, aboard Galloping Goose #5! The West end of the Chama Yard, looking East. ~Curtis in New Mexico! {!-{>

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Day 326

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Down on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Narrow Gauge Railway, aboard Galloping Goose #5! More morning prep work in the Chama Yard. ~Curtis in New Mexico! {!-{>

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