Re: First Taste of 3' Gauge - Durango 1965

hank Wrote:
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> Durango '65. also 1st steam of any kind, 1st
> narrow gauge, 1st cinder in my eye...
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> hank

Ditto on all of that, though I believe my year was '66.

Mom said I barfed on myself, and she had to buy me new jeans in Silverton, none of which I have any memory of at all. But I sure remember standing next to the engine smoking it up and blowing the whistle on request prior to train time in Durango (#476, I think), hanging out of the coach window while going up the canyon and being admonished not to fall out, dad fishing the cinder out of my eye with the corner of his handkerchief while mom held me down. Plenty of cinders since then, but you always remember your first time.