I have already started putting all the info I have into a file(just a plan notepad file for now), but your suggestions are good ones.
What I would like to see is a group like the Friends, or some other D&RGW web site host the information that we gather. What I would like to have is categories in the list for the following headings.
A heading for each year so you can search and find a certain year of trips. Then under that have a list header across for Date, From and Destination, engine number, sponsor, and a clickable link for more information(Like crew, number of days, number of riders or whatever else might be needed. Helpers should be mentioned someplace where they ran from Chama-Cumbres for instance. Maybe the last header would be NOTES, and simple ones can be listed, and if there is more to it, click through for that.
I am happy to try to gather the data, but I don't really have the background to create a web listing per se, so someone else needs to help in that regard. Maybe 50 years from now some guy who finds some photos or films of that era can research our findings and figure out what is going on besides maybe just a photo with Lobato Trestle June 4, 1955, etc. In reality if this were to work someday it would be nice to transcribe those old records Jimmy Blouch has or ones others have and put freight workings in as well. That would be much more difficult as there were lots of freight moves of course. But we pretty much know some of the runs the final years.
What I am doing now is putting these all in a holding place, placing them in order by year the best I can. This would be basically 1940's-1960's. Suggestions welcome.
Greg Scholl
gregschollvideo.com
