Yeah, Mike, oil is a HATED word in these D&RGW circles. It would however, reduce the USFS scrutiny of the operations during the summer. Maybe a trial should be held as sort of a guinea pig to see if it would work as well as coal. Of course it would not (if only in the heads of those concerned) so coal bombing would resume. The Mt. washington Cog railway has recently started the changeover to oil firing with good results. Not that I am a proponant of oil burning, but I don't want to see the C&TS not run over a silly thing like fuel. I am off to the soap box derby (if only they hadn't torn that out of Knotts to make way for the WINDJAMMER that lasted all of 4 years. I was a great spot to watch those two old C-19's running through that part of the park.