Re: Unplugging the Colorado River -- Spearfish Lake Tales

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Subject: Re: Unplugging the Colorado River

Author:
Ralph Reinhold

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Date Posted: 23:57:32 05/24/16 Tue
In reply to: Jon 's message, "Re: Unplugging the Colorado River" on 23:16:36 05/23/16 Mon

photographing and
>riding the last runs of the Rio Grande Zephyr
>passenger train immediately before the integration of
>the RGZ into Amtrak. Following the RGZ route along the
>upper Colorado River around Glenwood Springs

When I was small, my family took a trip to Newcastle to see my Uncle Ralph Elkington. He was managing an effort to harvest beetle killed trees and replant large areas around there.

We took the DRG&W Royale Gorge Route out to Glenwood Springs and the Moffat Tunnel Route back. My dad worked for the C&NW. I think we took that to Chicago and then to Omaha and then got on the CB&Q. We rode that to Denver and got on the DRG&W. That was 1948. There was still a lot of narrow gauge along the route then.

In 1952, we did a repeat performance only got on the CB&Q in Chicago.

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