Well said, Earl, as usual.
It's time for me to again plug one of my all time favorite places on the web.
www.urbaneagle.com/slim
follow the link to Durango and Silverton, and click on the Don Winslow photo gallery from Durango 1965. I was first there in '66 and this is exactly how it was.
As the Mountain Men before us would have said, "Them was shinin' times". And they were.
If you haven't seen these photos before, check them out, along with the other fine stuff there. If it's been a while since you've seen them, check it out again, it's time. I can still smell the coal smoke, and I bet I always will.
Mike