Re: The Chili Line closed also.

Earl:
Shame on you...and I thought you were a nice guy .
I had the opportunity to spend a lot time with a retired D&RGW engineer who worked both the standard gauge and narrow gauge (including a stint on the Zephyr and the Grand Junction hump engine). He made a list of all the D&RGW engines he had run. I asked him what were his favorites. He said on the narrow gauge it was the mudhens (probably because that is what he started on). On the standard gauge he said it was the 1500 series 4-8-2s. I asked him why and he said because they were the first engines he worked on that had coal stokers.
Jerry