November 28, 2020 05:40PM
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"Somehow, this living museum concept has crept in over the years."
This is an excellent point. Back in the 70s and 80s, "living museum" was never mentioned. There was a year or 2 with diesel only trains running from Cumbres to Sublette (something I think the railroad should do more often to make MONEY from shorter runs). The original intent of the railroad was to help the local economies and the reality is it is still the reason the states kick in money.
We passed through Chama driving home from Colorado in late July. The town was DEAD. The railroad yard was DEAD with no one around. It was quite sad and depressing.
Its easy to say "steam or nothing" or "coal or nothing" or "if they run any diesels, I'm done". But as i said in my initial post, "nothing" means the 168 is back stuffed and mounted in Colorado Springs, the 463 is who knows where, and lots of cold K-36s. I want the railroad to survive another 50 years. We have experienced amazing things on this railroad over the years such as the rotary, the 315, the 168, triple headers, double headers, photo freights, galloping gooses, etc. I'll take a diesel standing in reserve or operating on secondary trains if it means the railroad continues.
Don't forget, the forest service has shut down the railroad before. If it gets shut down again, it may not restart.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/28/2020 05:45PM by Tenderpaw.
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