Re: Zoo Train to To-Hell-You-Ride
| April 29, 2016 08:32PM |
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KoloradoKid Wrote:
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> Thanks!!! That really helped. I left the area in
> 1987 and haven't been back that often. I had
> found my copy of the little book on the railroad
> and it dropped off with the sale to Telluride.
IIRC the BroAdmoor Hotel / Cheyenne Mountain complex sold the train for $1, or perhaps donated it outright as a tax deduction, to the City of Telluride circa 1974 at the behest of a member of the Tutt family (John?) who was living there at the time. There had been hopes to refurbish Motor ("Goose") #4 for use - along with the zoo train - in providing transportation into town from a parking lot to be located out at the junction in order to relieve the traffic congestion anticipated to result from development of the ski area. Of course this was just a beginning, and additional equipment would have soon been needed. Alas, a rail transit system never came to the Zoo that is now To-Hell-You-Ride - but the traffic congestion certainly did . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2016 08:39PM by Russo Loco.
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> Thanks!!! That really helped. I left the area in
> 1987 and haven't been back that often. I had
> found my copy of the little book on the railroad
> and it dropped off with the sale to Telluride.
IIRC the BroAdmoor Hotel / Cheyenne Mountain complex sold the train for $1, or perhaps donated it outright as a tax deduction, to the City of Telluride circa 1974 at the behest of a member of the Tutt family (John?) who was living there at the time. There had been hopes to refurbish Motor ("Goose") #4 for use - along with the zoo train - in providing transportation into town from a parking lot to be located out at the junction in order to relieve the traffic congestion anticipated to result from development of the ski area. Of course this was just a beginning, and additional equipment would have soon been needed. Alas, a rail transit system never came to the Zoo that is now To-Hell-You-Ride - but the traffic congestion certainly did . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2016 08:39PM by Russo Loco.
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