Re: Nomad

Actually, let me clean up a couple of things, now that I've had dinner and a chance to renew my memory. Not Jackson, of course, but Gen. Palmer who had a private car named the Nomad, but it was a standard gauge car from what I recall. The D&RGW's employee magazine, the Green Light (Lantern?)in a 1949 issue about the railroad fair in Chicago promoted the B-3 as Palmer's private car, and this is all in the material on the Ft. Lewis web site I mentioned. I don't know if this notion was around earlier, but it sounded good, as the B-3 made the trip to Chicago to be in the fair. That Green Light article was what prompted Wood to continue with the story, and it was picked up by the papers, and of course, Beebe and Clegg, whose research was fairly shallow.
Wood ran the Nomad to Silverton a number of times during the 1957 summer season, but his partner White, never came through with the money to pay for the restoration or to pay for the Nomad's trip charges. In 57, the round trip fare was like $5.25, so the Nomad wasn't that expensive to run as a private car. But, the car was sold at a sheriff's auction to satisfy the creditors, and Wood and White became footnotes to narrow gauge history. The Woods had a son a couple of years younger than I was. His name was (is) Mark, and chances are he's still around.