Re: Exactly what is it that makes YOU,love the D&RGW narrow gauge?

Riding from Golden to Chama with Bob was a real experience. We went thru South Park and over Poncha Pass. He stopped at Alamosa to drop off a letter to the editor of the local paper (he was still a subscriber after being gone from Alamsoa since 58). I was as surprised as everyone when he told us that it was the first time he had seen a D&RGW rotary in operation as the road over Cumbres was closed in the winter.

Dick Kindig was kind of a shy guy. He never grabbed the limelight, but when the Air Force stationed me in Germany in 76, he wrote to me many times and always included prints or a B&W neg. He gave me many B&W negs that he said were defective, but other than a couple of minor scratches, they sure were not defective to me.

Just wish I would have had more time with all of them.

Jerry Day
Longmont,CO


gbrewer Wrote:
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> Wow, Jerry,
>
> Some might say spending time with the likes of Bob
> Richardson, Dick Kindig, and Jack Thode were the
> glory days of the narrow gauge.
>
> I was on that rotary run too, and I sat to your
> left at the tribute to the late Dick Kindig. I
> talked to Jack Thode a couple of times, and he
> seemed a very likable man. Wish I had known Dick
> Kindig.
>
> Glen