Norwood

I'm a big fan of some of Norwood's writings, but being a railroad guy, my guess is he is a better story teller than historian. My favorite volume is his "Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Recollections", which focuses on the story telling. It includes his tales about the '52 winter ("the Granddaddy of Snowstorms on Cumbres") and the 1957 Cumbres winter saga. Fascinating reading that conveys the macho spirit of railroading...which wasn't limited to the narrow gauge, his stories remind me of some of the crazy @#$%& we did on the SP (because the railroad was bigger than life, it HAD to run, and getting trains through was more important than personal safety or family). Railroading kept this kind of nonsense alive well into the space ago...and it continues to this day in Chama and Antonito.