I wish I would have had more time to visit with Frank. I was in the Air Force and was transferred to Germany in 1976. Frank died just a few weeks after we got back to Colorado in 1979. We exchanged letters while I was there, but nothing like sitting and listening to him talk. I recorded a lot of our meetings.
I missed talking to Clarence Russell as he was in a nursing home and could not have visitors when I was last in Grand Junction before going to Germany. Clarence wrote a number of letters to me before he passed.
Frank was sad that his D&RGW buddies were slowly passing away.
I treasure his stories and engine 474 and Rotary OO will always be my favorites because of those stories.