NEB&W Presents Soph Marty's Photo Album - Chama, NMLast Update: 2007-06-06
Many of the photos in the Clark Propst Photo Album were taken by Soph Marty. (See Clark Propst's Photo Album for these.) Soph has gotten a scanner and now is sending them on directly.
Soph said: "Because I could not find any structures photos in the first three boxes of slides (I think there are 106), we will go to Chama, NM. I have tons of photos of Chama since I have been there many times to worship before the K-27, the K-36's, and even the K-37. Many of you have been there and have photographed the same structures, so I will, for the time being, concentrate on Chama in 1969, abandoned, empty, desolate, decrepid, before the C&TS restored her to life."
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Soph
Marty photo of the Chama coaling tower and sand facility, July 31, 1969.
- Another view of the tipple. Soph said: "Considering what a dark structure
it was and that I was shooting into the sun, the detail came out fairly well."
And note that the shed under the tipple is sheathed with clapboard, not
board-n-batten as on the plastic kit version of this.
- Another photo of the tipple. Soph said: "I notice in model building, when
structures are built board-by-board, each board is stained
separately and shows on the model. Looks wonderful on the
model and gains extra points in a contest. However, let me
point out that the D&RGW built this coal tipple board-by-board...
trust me on this...and they all look the same color to me.
And as far as weathering goes, I would never argue with the D&RGW!"
- A closeup of the tipple.
- SD Marty photo
of D&RGW narrow gauge loco no. 463 at the coal dock. I don't know the location of this
photo, but it is also at the Chama tipple, or they had a very standard design.
- The prototype was produced in wood by Campbell and then
in plastic by AHM. The AHM model was reissued by just
about every general plastic model company (IHC, Pola, Tyco,
to nake a few). (More
on the HO scale kits of this structure.)
