Re: May 2015 TRAINS Magazine ... 
| April 29, 2015 05:24PM |
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Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> The interviews are with D&RGW guys
> who ran back in the Grande days on
> freight runs.
Right, Greg -
Three really good interviews with three of the 'Old Heads' who are still around. Two of them - Eldon Morgan and Gayle Cunningham - were the engineer and fireman respectively on the helper engines on the very last revenue freights over Cumbres Pass, almost exactly a year after John Gruber's visit to the C&TS in August, 1967.
I ran into Gruber (almost) that week when his driver stopped their car in front of me quite suddenly so he could (presumably) take a photo of that same train while they were chasing it into Chama. I swerved into the ditch to avoid rear-ending their car, and was helped back onto the road by another carload of fellows driving behind me. Many years later I relayed this story to Steve Forney, and three or four years ago when he heard Fred Oster telling about helping a crazy foamer out of the ditch in The Narrows he put two and two together ... (IIRC, it was Fred Oster who helped John Bush with the cosmetic restoration of #168 in Colorado Springs over 30 years ago.)
- Roosso
p.s. For several more pics of the August, 1967 D&RGW train featured in the May 2015 TRAINS, see [ngdiscussion.net], [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net]. And here are two that have been posted before, featuring interviewees Eldon Morgan and Gayle Cunningham - Eldon heading west from Cumbres on 08/28/68:
... and Gayle fumigating Antonito on 08/29/68:
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2016 10:34PM by Russo Loco.
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> The interviews are with D&RGW guys
> who ran back in the Grande days on
> freight runs.
Right, Greg -
Three really good interviews with three of the 'Old Heads' who are still around. Two of them - Eldon Morgan and Gayle Cunningham - were the engineer and fireman respectively on the helper engines on the very last revenue freights over Cumbres Pass, almost exactly a year after John Gruber's visit to the C&TS in August, 1967.
I ran into Gruber (almost) that week when his driver stopped their car in front of me quite suddenly so he could (presumably) take a photo of that same train while they were chasing it into Chama. I swerved into the ditch to avoid rear-ending their car, and was helped back onto the road by another carload of fellows driving behind me. Many years later I relayed this story to Steve Forney, and three or four years ago when he heard Fred Oster telling about helping a crazy foamer out of the ditch in The Narrows he put two and two together ... (IIRC, it was Fred Oster who helped John Bush with the cosmetic restoration of #168 in Colorado Springs over 30 years ago.)
- Roosso
p.s. For several more pics of the August, 1967 D&RGW train featured in the May 2015 TRAINS, see [ngdiscussion.net], [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net]. And here are two that have been posted before, featuring interviewees Eldon Morgan and Gayle Cunningham - Eldon heading west from Cumbres on 08/28/68:
... and Gayle fumigating Antonito on 08/29/68:
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2016 10:34PM by Russo Loco.
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