Over the past few years I have grown very weary of correcting the statements of the current operators who continually harp on the premise that "nobody fixed/maintained/repaired/etc. anything for over 20 years and now WE have to..."
I stand by the record of our accomplishments. We did some serious steam railroading. Not to take anything away from our brothers over in Durango, but WE were THE SHOW. Mr. Bush gave us the motive power, I got the trains across the road, and Mr. Vigil gave us the lattitude to do what we thought was best. It worked.
I've grown tired of beating the drum about the work we did.
Those who know what we did already know the story.
Those who don't know, don't matter to me. If they want to believe, BS, let them. I we had done nothing for 20 years, the place would, well look sort of like it does now... or even worse.