Lone Ranger Locomotive

I remember riding the DL&W MU’s from Hoboken to Ampere close to where I had a room at that time. Fortunately we never ran into enough leaves to skid. At times the trains were so crowded you had to stand in the vestibule and the trains ran with their doors open.

Josh Randall, the Lone Ranger and Lucas McCain-the three greatest Western heroes of all time

Back about 1960, an episode of “The Rifleman” was filmed across the street from our house, my dad and brother got to meet Chuck Conners. We were living in Thousand Oaks (pop ~2,000 at that time) about 1 to 2 miles from MGM’s “Western” backlot.

  • Erik