Luxury accommodations in a NG Pullman
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With the gap in on-location C&TS work session, the Friends Colorado Springs group can get started on the final lap of the Tourist Sleeper #470.
Yesterday, we started assembling the seats. Since there probably isn't anybody alive that can remember exactly how they worked, we are having to do some engineering on the fly. The seats fold down, creating the lower bunk. We will have to figure out exactly where the upper bunks mount on the wall. We are aided by a photo on page 258 of Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Varnish, by Herbert Danneman, but of course, that doesn't give the exact information on how they actually worked.
Bill Kepner.
Yesterday, we started assembling the seats. Since there probably isn't anybody alive that can remember exactly how they worked, we are having to do some engineering on the fly. The seats fold down, creating the lower bunk. We will have to figure out exactly where the upper bunks mount on the wall. We are aided by a photo on page 258 of Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Varnish, by Herbert Danneman, but of course, that doesn't give the exact information on how they actually worked.
Bill Kepner.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.