Re: This month's Trains cover

hank Wrote:
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> Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> > The refences refers to before the freight
> business
> > ended and the remaining portion remained as a
> > tourist line(1968-1971).
>
> Yes Greg, I realize that's what they MEANT but
> it's not what they SAID.
>
> > The interviews are with
> > D&RGW guys who ran back in the Grande days on
> > freight runs.
>
> But you have to open the mag to find that out, I
> was talking about the COVER.
>
> Nice interviews, btw.
>
> hank

I guess you can interpret these things in several ways. I can see how someone might be confused, although I really wasn't. What is more deceptive to me was the C&TS freight train on the cover. The big text says Colorado Narrow Gauge, under the TRAINS banner then "Tales from before the tourists, p22. Then they show a C&TS lettered 487 on a freight train. This is their annual May issue with the tourist train guide, and of the C&TS fits right in. I can see where a picture of a D&RGW freight might have fit the text better, or a picture of a regular C&TS PASSENGER train, to show the railroad is still there. After all the small caption down by the fence at Dalton says " A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Train Steams In New Mexico".
I guess we can over-think this, but in the long run it brings attention to current day Colorado/NM NG, as well as giving a bit of history. Free advertising is always good! I had to pay for my ad though!!!
Greg