Re: Looks like we got company at the CATS for awhile - 
| January 04, 2018 06:01PM |
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KevinM Wrote:
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> I thought the residents in Durango preferred
> to just bitch about the coal smoke!
Only a small but vocal minority of relatively recent immigrants who are ignorant of and/or indifferent to the role of the D&RGW in the history of Durango and its environs. Per our late benefactor Don Richter, use of the common pejorative used to describe such persons, "@#$%&", is 'verboten' here on the NGDF.* I presume the majority of the folks in Durango could care less one way or the other about #315, and for those who do have warm feelings it's only a 2 or 2½ hour drive to Chama.
> Quite honestly....and this is just my personal
> observation....It does not appear that the D&S
> has a keen interest in doing photography char-
> ters, other than the ones they run themselves.
> If that observation is accurate, there is little
> reason for 315 to be in Silverton or Durango.
> 315's mission is best accomplished in a place
> where excursions, historic re-creations & photo-
> graphy charters are not perceived as major dis-
> ruptions, but rather, as welcome events. And
> the C&TS is such a place. I personally am
> thrilled to hear the news that she's no lon-
> ger just "visiting equipment."
I'll heartily second that motion, Kevin!!
- Roosso
* As you can see, Don installed a software filter several years ago so that any attempt to enter the word "N-I-M-B-Y", in upper or lower case and without spaces or dashes, etc., is replaced by "@#$%&".
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> I thought the residents in Durango preferred
> to just bitch about the coal smoke!
Only a small but vocal minority of relatively recent immigrants who are ignorant of and/or indifferent to the role of the D&RGW in the history of Durango and its environs. Per our late benefactor Don Richter, use of the common pejorative used to describe such persons, "@#$%&", is 'verboten' here on the NGDF.* I presume the majority of the folks in Durango could care less one way or the other about #315, and for those who do have warm feelings it's only a 2 or 2½ hour drive to Chama.
> Quite honestly....and this is just my personal
> observation....It does not appear that the D&S
> has a keen interest in doing photography char-
> ters, other than the ones they run themselves.
> If that observation is accurate, there is little
> reason for 315 to be in Silverton or Durango.
> 315's mission is best accomplished in a place
> where excursions, historic re-creations & photo-
> graphy charters are not perceived as major dis-
> ruptions, but rather, as welcome events. And
> the C&TS is such a place. I personally am
> thrilled to hear the news that she's no lon-
> ger just "visiting equipment."
I'll heartily second that motion, Kevin!!
- Roosso
* As you can see, Don installed a software filter several years ago so that any attempt to enter the word "N-I-M-B-Y", in upper or lower case and without spaces or dashes, etc., is replaced by "@#$%&".
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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