Re: Why is the Forum so Focused on D&RGW?

et&wnc Wrote:
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> . . .  {Like many others,} I've always been baffled
> why the focus from even NG fans has been almost
> 100% on the former D&GRW lines...

jwebb Wrote:
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> . . .  I think more people focus on the Rio Grande
> because it's still with us in a couple large chunks.
> Gobs of Rio Grande equipment runs on non Rio
> Grande lines.  I love it all, but the D&SNG and
> C&TS are close by one another and relatively
> inexpensive to get to.


Right, Youse Guys -

Another BIG reason, IMHO, is a lot of us senior fans - Old Curmudgeons like Ed Stabler, Ernie Robart, Haich O'Mannder, the JéBêWèX, Tom Gildersleeve and myself - actually saw the D&RGW when it was a busy, essentially main-line freight-hauling railroad but still running steam in the early and mid-sixties - the way the standard gauge railroads some of us saw as kids were hauling freight in the late forties and early fifties.  I can't think of any railroads in the lower 48 that were anything like the D&RGW narrow gauge during my college years - and all but one of the K-36's that I saw at work back then are still running on the D&S and C&T!   I saw the D&RGW up close & personal; all the rest - even the West Side and the S.P. narrow gauge - I know only from books, photos and videos.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender