September 27, 2005 08:03AM
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Herb, Charles and Russ, thanks for the supporting comments.
As a volunteer at the D&S I have a very hard time finding what people mean by "Disneyland" comments. I see people working very hard to do amazing things every day. I have said it before that some of what the D&S does operationally on a normal day would be newsworthy on most other historic roads. It is very disheartening to folks who work so very hard at keeping operational what the D&RGW failed to demolish or scrap to have their work dismissed as "Disney". Look at the restoration of the Needleton tank.
I love the C&T also, and always reccomend it highly to passengers I talk to, and I think riding both helps give a more complete understanding of the history of the region and of the D&RG.
The posts that appear here sometimes make it seem that the two roads are in competition. The D&S onboad magazine has articles covering the C&TS as well as the other nearby historic railroads. There is not any animosity between the two railroads I am aware of, and employees of each frequently visit the other.
Some seem to dislike that the D&S is a commercial operation. Yes, the D&S is run as a business. That too is historic, since the D&RGW was a business as well.
And none of this post is meant to take away from the hard work done at the C&TS by the employees and Friends, or by the hard work done at Sumpter, at EBT, at Huckleberry, the Gorge, CRRM, the Loop and many other roads, museums, static park displays, etc. It's all important, and it all deserves to be positively supported.
Best regards to all,
Philip
PS: I did not get to participate in the Fall photo special this year, but the colors are fantastic right now. I was instead up at Glenwood Springs with a group of speeder operators giving the public farewell rides on the D&RGW Aspen branch before the rails are removed for scrap. The Glenwood Springs Railroad Museum organised the event, and I hauled about 30 passengers (not all at once!) in my MT14 (D&RGW 4054) on a 2 1/2 hour twenty mile round trip from Glenwood to Carbondale. As the Aspen branch was originally NG, its demise is somewhat NG related. A bittersweet run.
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