November 23, 2010 02:54AM
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Mike Carr did work in the summer of 1971 and 1972. When he returned to Chicago in the fall of 1971, he was lucky enough to land a job firing on the Milwaukee Road. He actually left that to return to Chama for the summer of 1972. But when he was able to get his job back on the Milwaukee Road in the fall of 1972, he decided he'd better stick with it this time or he wasn't likely to get another opportunity like that! But just in case, he retained his half ownership of the house we co-owned in Chama for about 12 more years.
I'm not sure when John Oldberg hired on. It might have been in the spring of 1972.
Sid McKinney was the main engineer in 1971 and 1972. Someone else pointed out that Ben Greathouse had to quit running on the C&TS or lose his retirement benefits. I think Jim Shawcroft (pretty fuzzy here) probably began helping out in 1972 as we began running more trains. Scenic was rightly concerned about lawsuits and satisfying the FRA, so they wanted someone with credentials. Sid, who was already in his 60's, had a serious accident on his return to Amarillo after the end of the 1972 season, totalling his camper and breaking his leg. So that was the end of his career on the C&TS.
Jim was the sole engineer in 1973, even though still employed by the Rio Grande, by taking his vacation, leave of absence, and then as much more time off as he could get away with. Early in the season of 1974, the Rio Grande finally gave him an ultimatum, and he had to leave. At that point I was officially promoted, and became the only engineer for some time.
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