Re: D&RGW #223 Status Update
| October 09, 2020 10:39PM |
I cannot comment on the finances or what would be required to get 223 to run. I wrote the history of it for the Prospector magazine and did a lot of research on it for a book that I decided not to complete. I will say this...
I first saw 168 in Colorado Springs in the summer of 1959. I never dreamed that it would run some day. Last Thursday I saw it run to Big Horn and return and on Sunday I rode behind it to Osier and return.
I do not see how anyone who saw or will see this could doubt the value of it.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/09/2020 10:46PM by Jerry474.
I first saw 168 in Colorado Springs in the summer of 1959. I never dreamed that it would run some day. Last Thursday I saw it run to Big Horn and return and on Sunday I rode behind it to Osier and return.
I do not see how anyone who saw or will see this could doubt the value of it.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/09/2020 10:46PM by Jerry474.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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