November 26, 2018 11:52AM
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John West Wrote:
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> Gordon Chappell has been a well known chronicler
> of the narrow gauge in the San Juan and retired as
> a Regional Historian for the NPS. I was curious as
> to his view of the NPS decision about the D&RGW
> ng., so I called him.
He basically said it was
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just too much railroad . . .
Yep - 92 miles from Alamosa to Chama – the first 40 of which are not particularly scenic – and another 107 miles from Chama to Durango, much of which is not exactly spectacular. Essentially 200 miles of railroad that would get used five months a year and pounded by Mother Nature the other seven — not a wise investment of our tax dollars, IMHO. Even just the 64 miles saved as the C&TS is an awful lot of railroad to maintain — I'll bet John Matthews and John Bush wouldn't mind if it were only about half that! OTOH, the NPS Special generated a lot of good P.R. for the preservation effort, and undoubtedly contributed to the eventual decision by Colorado and New Mexico to preserve the scenic and historic heart of the San Juan Extension.
> Fascinating thread, and I am absolutely amazed
> at the volume and variety of good stuff Ernie was
> able to get, he sure drove quickly and did a lot
> of scrambling. And thanks to Russo for all the
> scanning and posting work, not a small task.
Thank You, John -
I'm just real pleased to see our friend Ernie finally get some of the recognition he deserves for all of his efforts to preserve the D&RGW narrow gauge and to restore and promote the section that became the C&TS. True, it has been a lot of work these past few months — but also a privilege to be trusted with Ernie's negatives, and a real thrill to see each of them gradually appear on my monitor as the scanning progresses. I'm past the point of being able to instigate charters – I'll leave that up to you and Micheal and The Friends – and I don't have big bucks to donate to "The Cause", so I'm happy to sit here playing on the 'puter knowing that I'm not just frittering away my time.
I have one more set of Ernie's photos to finish touching up – hopefully they'll be ready by December 5 & 6 – and then we all need to start getting ready to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of C&TS in early September, 2020.
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Roosso
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