rehess wrote:
Yes, I know that you volunteer there, which honestly is one of the reasons I was careful in my choice of words. Volunteers and the coats of paint that they assiduously apply is one of the reasons the appearance of that place improves year after year. The appearance of that first year apparently is what the D&RGW left. Dr. Bill Keller, the head of the first operating company, also a Mechanical Engineering Professor at Stanford University, had designed those first “coaches”, from boxcars available on site. They were still painting them when I saw them. Apparently folks were laughing at them for trying to run a passenger-carrying railroad from what the D&RGW had left behind - but they did, with the assistance of volunteers. My understanding is that the current passenger cars were built from the frames of old steel pipe-carrying cars also left behind.
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