Re: Salida, 100 years ago today

Donald EA Rogers, who was at one time D&RGW water super, once told me that he was in the yards in Salida in 1935 and there were so many standard and narrow gauge trains coming and going that it was hard to make up his mind which to shoot. Nine narrow gauge freights were in and our of town that day (three west bound to Marshall Pass, three east bound from Marshall Pass, one south bound to Alamosa over Poncha Pass, one Monarch run out and back). The Marshall Pass passenger (wasn't called the Shavano then) out and back. And he lost count of how many standard gauge trains. This was before the D&RGW started to run through the Moffat, so this was the D&RGW standard gauge main line and Marshall Pass was the narrow gauge main line.