Re: Perlman's Legacy.

Perlman was operating a business and it was the company's perogative to do what they wanted with their property.
I'll go back again to the late Don Rogers. Later into his career he began to branch out into weed spraying as well as water testing and did many "freelance" type of assignments for the Grande. His wife died in 1970 and he withdrew - a couple of years later I contacted him out of the blue from the wilds of California with some questions and he began to recall the old days and this in an excerpt from 2/28/73.
" Going over this stuff has done me a lot of good, and I have been recalling the late 40's, when I was detailed to find better ways to transfer NG to SG at Alamosa and Montrose. Concentrates were the main problem, and I worked out a system to mechanize transfer, but it was too late by then. Should you be interested I could write up a lot of stuff on the decline and fall of the NG, and what the RG would have liked to do to save the NG and the RGS. Much of it only I know, because it never entered reports. I had a lot of fun chasing around talking to shippers about their reactions, covering Telluride, Rico, Ophir, Somerset, Ridgway, etc."
No, I never followed up on that information because I was interested in the 1919-20 era and wasn't wise enough then to soak up all the information I could have gotten that might have been of interst to others in later years.