Re: Places on the Colorado Railroad Museum Loop

Dirk Ramsey Wrote:
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> The first Gato Shop was the closed off portion of
> the front porch of Bob's house. It was moved into
> the narrow gauge pullman car body in 1965,and into
> a the UP box car body in the late 1980's. At one
> time the shop "complex" consisted of a 50 ft.box
> car body a standard gauge copola less caboose
> body, a narrow gauge baggage car body, the pullman
> body, and a couple of wooden sheds. DRGW box car
> S-3272 was parts storage.
>
> It has just occurred to me that it was 50 years
> ago that I first started to volunteer at the
> Museum. A lot of good memories, good friends, hard
> work. The crew today has is made with that nice
> roundhouse. In my day, oh well. Never mind.
>
> Cheers
> Dirk
And you had to walk 10 miles to school through three feet of snow and it was uphill both ways.....
After laying out on the ground year round trying repair stuff at the CRRM, I remember when the roundhouse was built and connected to the turntable. We were inside working on 346 in our shirt sleeves in January. I thought i had died and gone to heaven. We paid our dues. The roundhouse was connected to the turntable in 2001 enabling the volunteers to bring the equipment inside.
We even have our own bathroom with hot and cold running water.
Bill G