Earl Wrote:
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> Terry Ross printed a nice book in the spring of
> 1971 about the C&TS and its future as an excursion
> railroad. It's real entertaining reading. In
> that is a chapter written by Ernie Robart covering
> the day-by-day operations of 1970, with consist
> lists, a blind siding report showing where
> everything was stashed as things slowly moved
> eastward.
>
> Sept 2, 1970:
>
> There were no yard tracks available to switch with
> in Antonito. the Grande shoved the whole mess
> across US 285 crossing and left it. They grabbed
> what they could and headed west. The first
> equipment move was 40 cars with 2 locomotives
> spaced out in the consist. At first they tried to
> leave with about 12 cars and 2 dead engines (492
> and 484). They only got about 200 ft and stalled
> so they cut 484 and the next forward 5 cars off.
> They got the remainder out to the first little
> hump in the grade at the first curve at MP 283 and
> spun to a stall again. They left 492 and 4 cars
> there. With 2 dump gons of ballast ahead and one
> pipe gon behind they headed west again. They got
> water a Lava and pushed on to Big Horn, leaving
> the two dump gons there. They then backed to the
> 492 and 4 cars and dragged them up to Lava and set
> them out there. 483 and the pipe gon "crew car"
> returned to Antonito for the night.
>
> If interested, I'll post more, but I imagine a lot
> of you have this book.
Here it is 2023 and I would like to know if Terry's book has been reprinted and available? Is there any other book as complete as Terry's appears to be that covers the railroad's rebirth? If there is, I'd like to know. If not, and assuming Terry approves, the book should be reprinted together with a selection of photographs by Terry or Ernie. A historian could assemble everything and the Friends publish it and put it for sale at the RR's and Friends gift shops.