Re: The top narrow gauge locations of all time

It is hard to pick best spots on the narrow gauge. The rugged beautiful country they traverse is the reason they were built narrow gauge in the first place.
I grew up in Telluride in the late 1940's and early 50's, for a boy it was a kind of a paradise, seeing live RGS engines in the warmth San Juan sunlight. Its where I learned to love trains and the narrow gauge, awful hard to beat.
I first got paid to railroad on the Georgetown Loop, what an amazing chunk of dramatic railroad in a compact space. Its where I rubbed shoulders with the "Old Heads" like Jake Mahr, Floyd Cothran, Jack Spence, and Roy Breffle who had worked steam when it was the way freight and passengers moved. It was there I first learned to work on the beasts.
I was fortunate to be CMO at Chama from Fall of 89 through spring of 96. The C&TS is the best of unselfconscious living history. Four hot engines simmering in the New Mexico night outside the Chama engine house, the rotary trains, the 3 engine freights, the triple headed passenger trains in the fall, and moonlight specials are etched in my mind like the "flashed" glass of an antique parlor car clerestory window.
The WP&YR where we run 22 trains a day from sea level to timberline in 20 miles on 115lb rail on 10 minute headways is a mighty spectular event. If I can figure out how I will post some recent shots.
They were and are each in its own way the best!