Re: D&RG, SL&RG no longer narrow gauge ... 
| February 08, 2010 11:00AM |
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Merl Wrote:
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> Has anyone asked for a update on the happenings
> for the Creede area?
>
> You're right about having the middle of the week
> to check out all the rails in the area! Hopefully
> Earl can put something together also.
> Boy would that be a full week of narrow gauge!
Sorry, Merl -
... but I have to keep up my reputation as a nit-picky curmudgeon:
The last time I rode the D&RG out of South Fork and the SL&RG out of Alamosa they had been widened
to standard gauge.
But I agree with you in hoping that Don Shank and Earl Knoob take advantage of the situation!
- Russo Loco, self-appointed one-man Chamber of Commerce for Narrow Gauge Country
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> Has anyone asked for a update on the happenings
> for the Creede area?
>
> You're right about having the middle of the week
> to check out all the rails in the area! Hopefully
> Earl can put something together also.
> Boy would that be a full week of narrow gauge!
Sorry, Merl -
... but I have to keep up my reputation as a nit-picky curmudgeon:
The last time I rode the D&RG out of South Fork and the SL&RG out of Alamosa they had been widened
to standard gauge.
But I agree with you in hoping that Don Shank and Earl Knoob take advantage of the situation!
- Russo Loco, self-appointed one-man Chamber of Commerce for Narrow Gauge Country
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