Jim McKee Wrote:
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> My interest in snowplow operations made this post
> particularly interesting, the photos especially.
> Railroad historian Jackson Thode rode this train
> and took numerous color slides. Duplicates of
> these slides were available through Al Chione
> during the 1970's. One of these duplicate slide
> sets is in the Dorman Collection and can be viewed
> online. Unfortunately the slides were not kept
> together during cataloging, so you will have to go
> through the color slide folders to find them all.
>
> Thode died in 2002 at the age of 86. He worked
> for the D&RGW from 1936, retiring in 1978 in a
> fairly high management position.
Another Rio Grande individual that rode was Vern Imroth.
He was editor of "Green Light" a Rio Grande Company News letter. Several of his views appeared in one of the issues.
Jimmy