Some day I'll get around to scanning my color slides of those days in Chama. What exciting times for a guy in his 20s on vacation from his job at Lockheed making missiles for the submarines. It lead to my moving to Silverton in 1970. My flickr site also has a shot of the coal loading dock in Durango that was reached by a long spur through the Federal Lumber sheds that are now part of a supermarket parking lot. There is also a shot of the end of the D&RGW'S track that connected with the RGS. When I visit those places today, I still see tracks and trains even though Wal Mart and other modern day stuff gets in the way of memories. Another conductor who should be mentioned from that era is Punk Blackstone who was still pulling down the occasional train as late as 1969. Punk and his wife travelled the world by train because he made his money owning apartment houses and chunks of land he would sell including the site of today's Durango High School. A couple of shots of Punk eating his lunch in the caboose of a Silverton work train in 1969 are also on my flickr site.