December 06, 2018 04:48PM
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A long time ago, when I was running the Friends' and the railroad's websites, I got an email from one of Thomas Hinman's descendants, perhaps a grandchild, who wanted to thank us for naming the coach after Thomas, or something like that. If only I could find the email, perhaps I could contact that person. But I suspect I deleted it long ago, so this ends my helpful contribution to Brian Shoup's inquiry.
However, Spencer Wilson has a bit about Hinman in his book, Saving The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad:
"Into this picture [1968] came Mr. Thomas Hinman. As far back as 1967, Hinman, once a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, proposed to run a train from Alamosa. He was president of the Rio Grande & San Juan Railway Company, which owned several pieces of narrow gauge rolling stock from Mexico. His proposal was to run a 'new train' on the old track to re-create the San Juan Limited, one of the named passenger trains on the narrow gauge. The board of directors included, among others, Don Alfonso J. Miranda y Covarrubias of Mexico City. Hinman longed to create an atmosphere 'reminiscent of this area's early cattle and mining days.' Mr. Hinman's efforts, like so many others at the time, came to naught, except for his legacy of one coach still on the Cumbres & Toltec."
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