Gentlemen,
At the time George B. was booted out, I talked to the Denver office of the FRA and they claimed they did not yet consider the C&TS to be under their jurisdiction, as insular. But they said they would review the railroad as a courtesy and to offer instructional aid. They also suggested that the Texas office did cover the steam locomotives for the work being done in Chama.
Now, we will stress again! There is no track specification for anything except standard gauge track. Therefore there is nothing a FRA man can review or "police" if you want to call it that. There is nothing that counts good versus bad ties. C&TS train operation have not been a subject which the FRA office has considered in the past. The property does not require the rules of a non-insular railroad connected to the national grid hauling chemicals and such. The FRA visits have been instructional courtesy in the past. As I stressed in another post about the insular EBT, it has been determined that these lines may come under the exception #3 for rapid transit. Since the law did not identify what was rapid and what was urban, the Galloping Goose Hist. Society of Dolores is building a insular line which crosses and is in the road. Goose #5 is rapid, isn't it? PRR