Re: Dream Charters . . . 
| May 31, 2023 12:17PM |
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William W. Webb Wrote:
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> The charter John was talking about was great.
> The accuracy was about as good as it gets.
I’ll second both those motions!!
> As far as recreation, the 60s is what a lot of us
> remember and it brings back a lot of nostalgia.
True enough, William -
But those of us lucky enough to have watched the D&RGW fade away in the sixties are mostly well past our own sixties, and fading away ourselves. OTOH the C&TS now has a history of its own of more than fifty years — it’s already more than a dozen years since we old timers celebrated the railroad’s beginnings on its 40th Birthday — and the C&TS now has a wide variety of equipment spanning more than 100 years of railroading on the D&RG(W) narrow gauge for a wide variety of re-creations from the 1890s on.
Dream Charters are WAY more possible today than they were in 1969!!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> The charter John was talking about was great.
> The accuracy was about as good as it gets.
I’ll second both those motions!!
> As far as recreation, the 60s is what a lot of us
> remember and it brings back a lot of nostalgia.
True enough, William -
But those of us lucky enough to have watched the D&RGW fade away in the sixties are mostly well past our own sixties, and fading away ourselves. OTOH the C&TS now has a history of its own of more than fifty years — it’s already more than a dozen years since we old timers celebrated the railroad’s beginnings on its 40th Birthday — and the C&TS now has a wide variety of equipment spanning more than 100 years of railroading on the D&RG(W) narrow gauge for a wide variety of re-creations from the 1890s on.
Dream Charters are WAY more possible today than they were in 1969!!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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