December 20, 2010 08:35PM
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Steve Forney Wrote:
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... Several years were spent planning (and
> re-re-planning) for the 40th Anniversary
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Actually, IIRC, the first serious
discussion - not even planning - of the 40th Anniversary event took place between Alan Loomis, Jay Wimer and myself in Jay's shop a day or two after Jay's photo-freight of early September, 2008. Alan introduced me to Soni in mid-September of 2009 and we brainstormed a bit. Soni even suggested dumping some fake styrofoam "rocks" on the tracks for the re-enactment of the volunteers clearing 'The Narrows' on 09/06/70. Well before Soni's resignation the event was turned over to Gayle as a project for the "Marketing Department", but she completely dropped the ball insofar as
ANY recognition of the 1970 volunteers or re-enactment of the first C&TS train into Chama was concerned. After Gayle's plans for August 27-29 were announced on the C&TS website and on the NGDF, Alan quickly agreed to help set up a charter on 08/30 for the re-enactment train so that - as a charter - he and I would have control of it instead of Gayle. We were both so busy with the "Springtime" charter that serious planning for August 30 didn't begin until the day following the "Springtime" event - May 26 - when I gave Alan a check for $1,000 as a down-payment for the Tribute Train. So 3/4 of the Anniversary Weekend was planned by Gayle during the winter, but 1/4 was planned by Alan and me in less than six weeks, with another six weeks or so to market it after we signed the final agreement in mid- July
... This was WAY too little time, and it is a miracle that we were able to pull off anything at all.
Without Alan nothing would have happened. Period.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/20/2010 09:09PM by Russo Loco.
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