Re: VERY Sad News - Ed Stabler Has Passed

Samart Wrote:
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> That is such sad news.  I never met Ed, but I
> felt like I knew him.  Just like most here, you
> feel like after a while that everyone is family.


I first met Ed here on the NGDF nearly twelve years ago, Craig -

. . . When I recognized his last name, and asked if he was related to one of the all-time best-liked professors at my Alma Mater, Genl. Wm. Jackson Palmer's very own 'THE Colorado College' – Robert M. "Doc" Stabler.  Yep - Ed was his son.

Ed and I didn't meet in person until a few years later, when he was talked into playing for us during the C&TS 40th Anniversary Celebration in August, 2010.  (Ed and I MAY have met 40 years before - in early September, 1970 - when both of us were present during the first week or so of C&TS operations after the D&RGW delivered #483 and a long string of cars to Antonito.  Ed was a volunteer on the engine crew, I worked a couple of days on the track gang.)

Here's Ed at Cumbres Pass on 08/27/10, providing an appropriate background of authentic cowboy and railroad songs during the al-fresco dinner for passengers who had ridden the President's Special or the Galloping Goose earlier that day:


By the time we rode the Reënactment Special three days later, Ed had me ALL figured out:


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



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2017 04:09PM by Russo Loco.