Re: D&S Christmas Tree Train
| December 09, 2019 10:32AM |
If you would like to know more about the history of D&RGW and D&S Christmas trains, I wrote a history published in the Rio Grande Modeling & Historical Society Prospector Magazine. The D&RGW Christmas trains started in Salida in 1949 and first one was powered by a K-37.
[www.rgmhs.org]
The 1951 Santa train at Salida was powered by 481.
Still doing it 68 years later.
[www.rgmhs.org]
The 1951 Santa train at Salida was powered by 481.
Still doing it 68 years later.
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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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