THE SECRET NARROW GAGE RAILROAD

THE SECRET NARROW GAGE RAILROAD NEVER YET IN PRINT!
Bob Richardson could soon be credited for discovering a narrow gauge operation that has never been written about! It seems he recently saw a history film about the development of Los Alamos Atomic Lab and early films showed D&RGW #478 and two coaches on trains that supplied workers to the newly developing facilities. He noted the films were seemly after the abandonment date of the Chili Line and wonders if anyone ever knew the actual date the rails were removed.
He questions if the Government arranged a contract operation over the track following the abandonment of the line as a private operation. Bob stressed that he never heard anything around Alamosa from the old crews about any post abandonment crew usage, but he said a fellow around Santa Fe once told him that the Chili line was run later than the abandonment date. Gordon Chappell said that he never noted any item in the local newspaper for that time frame, but because the Los Alamos work was so secret, and everyone was so loyal in that time, the papers would make a point to not print a word about a secret operation. Bob also said that nothing in the records at the museum ever made note of any post abandonment operation.
Did anyone one in this Discussion Group also see the history of Los Alamos in their television viewing and note the same films and judge their date? Now that some records are seemly being declassified, some of our Discussion Group member who live or work in the area might be able to confirm what really happened during WW II on the Chili Line lower end.
Maybe Bob, who never received the credit due him for finding the Ohio Creek Extension on the DSP&P, has pulled another rabbit out of his old hat. He is home and well after an upsetting Thanksgiving Day 'derailment'.