February 06, 2018 07:37PM
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I'm afraid you're right, Kevin -
But as an early and frequent instigator of some kind of commemoration of the very last REAL freights over Cumbres Pass in 1968, I'll have to confess a bit of bias toward this particular trip — at least conceptually. Since there are still a few months to go before the trip will be run, I hope that the Powers-that-Be will be open to suggestions from the numerous – and very knowledgeable – D&RGW fans here on the NGDF. While the absence of an operational K-37 to stand in for #498 in her role of pulling the last freight on 08/29/68 precludes a realistic re-enactment, hopefully at least a few minor modifications to the announced plans will help to re-create those last two days of
Rio Grande operations as accurately as possible.
BTW, this trip now appears on the official C&TS site, although I had to work a bit to find it. Apparently three horizontal bars – something like "
==" – is now web shorthand for a shortcut to the index page, on which I found a link to special events
: [
cumbrestoltec.com], where scrolling down a page or so gets you to a description of the 'Last Freights' commemoration.
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Roosso
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