Re: 9:30 Chama Time-Still No Train
| May 31, 2015 07:41AM |
My how these stories grow.
I have been reading of a train full of people, dressed for a casual outing on a sunny spring day, caught in an unheated train without brakes and apparently quite beyond help - all in the middle of night with a raging spring blizzard approaching. The conductor marshaling the workmen to attempt repairs by the light of kerosene lanterns feebly glowing in the moonlight. All this with a crew terrified by the prospect of a downhill ride unlike anything previously witnessed by humanity. The only story line missing was that of the woman in a motherly way - about to deliver. Of course, it was a Colorado narrow gauge train, slowly - oh ever so slowly - picking its way around rock falls and flooding streams, and (of course) she did not get on the train in that condition.
The real story was that the unforeseen event was casually handled by a first rate crew of mountain railroaders and the traveling public was never in danger.
Thank you John, and the C&TS railroad crew, for another job well done.
Rex Beistle
NMRA RMR
Estes Valley Division
I have been reading of a train full of people, dressed for a casual outing on a sunny spring day, caught in an unheated train without brakes and apparently quite beyond help - all in the middle of night with a raging spring blizzard approaching. The conductor marshaling the workmen to attempt repairs by the light of kerosene lanterns feebly glowing in the moonlight. All this with a crew terrified by the prospect of a downhill ride unlike anything previously witnessed by humanity. The only story line missing was that of the woman in a motherly way - about to deliver. Of course, it was a Colorado narrow gauge train, slowly - oh ever so slowly - picking its way around rock falls and flooding streams, and (of course) she did not get on the train in that condition.
The real story was that the unforeseen event was casually handled by a first rate crew of mountain railroaders and the traveling public was never in danger.
Thank you John, and the C&TS railroad crew, for another job well done.
Rex Beistle
NMRA RMR
Estes Valley Division
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