Re: Could the C&TS re-create the 1975 season?

guymonmd Wrote:
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> I like the idea.
> However even though Cumbres Pass is in
> Colorado, access to it would be from Chama.
> I believe that NM is wanting to keep tourists
> out of the state for now.


IIRC, the top of the pass is only a 45-minute bus ride from Antonito, Guy -

But the number of persons riding a bus would be limited. so it might be preferable for familes to drive separately to Cumbres - each in their own car.

How many passengers could be accommodated on the train?   And how far would it go — just to the loop at Osier; all the way to a turn-around on the wye at Big Horn; or only to Sublette, where the loco could run around the train and pull it back to Cumbres?  (Pushing a long string of coaches uphill is NOT recommended.)

See [ngdiscussion.net] for faded old photos of what was done to help keep the railroad alive in 1975.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender