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time I look at any of these photos or pass by this area again. At times the feeling is so re- al I almost believe I can go back to the old jail (impossible, as it was torn down years ago) or walk out to the tracks to snap a pass- ing train from the same view point (impossi- ble as the tracks are now lined with a high chain link fence). I have to mentally pinch myself to get back to reality. But then, that is how déjà-vu works.
Another excellent example of a déjà-vu railroad location is the iconic Jukes Tree out- side Chama, N.M., on the former Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge line, now the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic. This tree, a large, mature and very distinctively shaped pine, was made famous by D&RG employee and railfan Fred Jukes’s 1908 photo of a little train passing under it. Today this tree is lit- tle changed from over a hundred years ago. For decades, going back into the 1950s or even farther,
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Chama from all over the country (as well as Europe and Asia) have included photos of this tree with a train passing underneath in their itinerary, and it is frequently a location for photo runbys on the excursion freights held annually on the C&TS. As just one ex- ample, in October 2012 I was waiting near the tree for a photo, when a group of German (I think, from the sound of their language) fans in town for the weekend’s photo excur- sion freight drove up and set up their tripods and videocams for photos.
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Every time I see this tree or photos of it, I get a déjà-vu feeling about Fred Jukes’s pho- to as well as the several times I have pho- tographed the tree. Déjà-vu all over again and again. (There were actually two differ- ent Jukes Trees, the second one no longer standing. If your collection of R&R maga- zines goes back that far, see “The Mystery of
Jukes Tree” in the April 1990 issue.) Creating a sense of déjà-vu for yourself can be done in several ways. First, pick a lo- cation you have photographed that you find inspirational and have been getting the de- sire to go back and photograph again (the déjà-vu part), such as with my experiences on the Joint Line, and show them side by side at a slide or image show. (If the old pho- to is a slide or print and today you are shoot- ing digital, scan the old image so it can be shown together with the new photo.) Or maybe you have traded slides and have ac- quired one or several showing interesting or historic locations that you would like to see and photograph yourself. You may have seen an interesting photo from a few decades ago in a book or magazine, and you could go out and photograph that location as it is today. You could also re-shoot a location one of
your favorite railfan photographers who has inspired you is known for, duplicating his or her composition as much as possible. A pho- to by Richard Kindig of a steam locomotive in the “Tunnel District” on the Moffat Line west of Denver was an inspiration for me to try to find that location and duplicate it with the Rio Grande Zephyr. Now every time I see Richard’s photo I feel like I have been there myself, which I have! Be it a well known location such as the
Keddie Wye, Tehachapi, Cajon, Donner Pass, Doug Harrop’s Weber Canyon photos, photos of Big Boys and Challengers on Sher- man Hill, O. Winston Link’s Virginia, Horse- shoe Curve, or just your favorite local rail- fanning spot. What brings a feeling of déjà-vu to you? Or if you have an old photo of a particular locomotive that is now in operation on an- other railroad, you could show the engine at its new location — a comparison of the same
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