Re: #42

I have several pictures taken on the first day of official operations at Magic Mountain in 1959. The 42 made several trips around the loop with a passenger train after former Govenor Dan Thornton gave some opening remarks. Bob Richardson and a group from the CRM drove over for the event and I rode along with them. That was the only time I saw the 42 operate. I also saw the 42 as it went into the Alamosa shops for shopping before it shipped to Magic Mountain. The 42 went from Bob's museum in Alamosa to the D&RGW shops, then to Magic Mountain and never made the move to the new Golden museum property. That 1959 date also marked the official opening of Bob's new motel at the museum and my mother and I were the first paying guests to stay there.