It IS time for a sequel to "The Saga of Burning Switch"!!
| November 13, 2012 12:21PM |
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Etrump Wrote:
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> Mr. Stabler ...
>
> Maybe we can switch Billy and his crew to
> some other narrow gauge operation for the
> new one???.
>
> I'd vote for them being laid off the Montana
> road and having boomed as a crew down to
> Ridgway, CO. and hit the old RGS up for jobs
> running, firing, braking and conducting ...
> Say around 1898 or '99, somewhere in there.
>
> We could use actual locations and stuff on the
> old RGS for another episode of some kind. That
> was a neat road and opportunity abounded for
> high adventure ...
Ed & Ed, et al -
IMHO, you've GOT to set at least one chapter at the snowshed-covered wye at Lizard Head, with a bunch of flatland touristers from the East Coast and Europe on board a special train; one of them gets his feathers up, stomps off, and catches the stage to To-Hell-You-Ride.
And how about changing the time from the late 1890's to the 1920's - so it could be Herr Chaplin with Laurel & Hardy, Mac Sennett and the Keystone Cops on a chartered train to film a movie out in the Wild West. See [ngdiscussion.net] et seq for some basic ideas toward setting up a sequence for comic relief (IIRC a common feature of movies in the olden days) ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/13/2012 12:29PM by Russo Loco.
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> Mr. Stabler ...
>
> Maybe we can switch Billy and his crew to
> some other narrow gauge operation for the
> new one???.
>
> I'd vote for them being laid off the Montana
> road and having boomed as a crew down to
> Ridgway, CO. and hit the old RGS up for jobs
> running, firing, braking and conducting ...
> Say around 1898 or '99, somewhere in there.
>
> We could use actual locations and stuff on the
> old RGS for another episode of some kind. That
> was a neat road and opportunity abounded for
> high adventure ...
Ed & Ed, et al -
IMHO, you've GOT to set at least one chapter at the snowshed-covered wye at Lizard Head, with a bunch of flatland touristers from the East Coast and Europe on board a special train; one of them gets his feathers up, stomps off, and catches the stage to To-Hell-You-Ride.
And how about changing the time from the late 1890's to the 1920's - so it could be Herr Chaplin with Laurel & Hardy, Mac Sennett and the Keystone Cops on a chartered train to film a movie out in the Wild West. See [ngdiscussion.net] et seq for some basic ideas toward setting up a sequence for comic relief (IIRC a common feature of movies in the olden days) ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/13/2012 12:29PM by Russo Loco.
- and raise you a 
... no pun intended!
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