Re: Odds & Ends r.e. the C&S

rdamurphy Wrote:
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> I don't think mention of the C&S brought a "nega-
> tive reaction" as much as it did a "reality check".
> There are several C&S locomotives all stuffed
> and mounted, and I think most people think it's
> a shame they cannot be used any more. There's
> a lot of D&RGW museum equipment, and two
> railroads, while very little C&S still exists.


Well, Robert -

I think that has a lot to do with the "expiration date" of the two railroads.  The D&RGW narrow gauge outlasted the C&S narrow gauge by about a quarter of a century, and there are still a few of us who post here on the NGDF who were lucky enough to witness and photograph the final five or ten years of the Rio Grande.  I'd be very surprised if there's anyone still alive who remembers the last days of the C&S narrow gauge.  In addition, the C&S died just prior to, or at the beginning of, World War II.  Quite a bit of C&S equipment – including the last surviving DSP&P Mason-Bogie, IIRC – was sacrificed to the WWII scrap drives.

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



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/2017 07:54PM by Russo Loco.