Re: San Juan versus earlier

Seems like you already have your wish, with 168, the historic coaches, and a few older freight cars to go with it.

My most wanted thing would be a San Juan era say 1950. That would mean the San Juan was still running, and the NG was booming with a lot of variety of power still running, especially if you went back to say 1945 or thereabouts.

At least that era leaves you with one passenger train (The San Juan), in operation, as well as some excursion consists over the Cumbres route that lasted into 1966. Unfortunately aside from an RPO and Baggage, all those former passenger cars are elsewhere like Knotts, and D&S. While I think the red coaches are a nice warm tourist-friendly color, I wish there were some red and grande gold coaches to represent the period between 1945 and 1966. The Railroad has the freight train replicas covered with lots of power and freight cars from that period.

Seems to me in general the railroad has done a great job depicting a lot of different time periods, including the current C&TS tourist railroad. There is no right or wrong answer, right???
Greg