I started in 1977. Came to ride, was invited to volunteer, got hired and started my career in railroading.
I remember the depot well at that time. Lathe on the walls but no plaster. in the ticket office there was a "leaning Tree" poster of a very beat up cowboy cradling a tin cup of coffee by a camp fire. The caption was "There's a hellova lot of things they didn't tell me when I hired on with this outfit".
We put a hose in the tender the moment the train got back to Silver Plume and left it in until the last possible second when leaving for the next run.
Once we got the #40 over from Central City we used the tender of the engine not running that day as the water tank for the one that was running.
We had a gas pump to pump from one tender to the other. The tracks were close enough together so you could leap from one tender to the other without getting down.
Fortunately in those days we were all young and invincible.
Big fun
John Bush
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