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Colorado Annual 1967 Farewell to Cumbres by Chappell D&RG 1880-1970
Colorado Annual 1967 Farewell to Cumbres by Chappell
Soft Cover THIRD prining
32 pages
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The steep side of Cumbres
Over Cumbres in snow
Cumbres a half century ago
7:00 am from Alamosa
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The San Juan and Cumbres Pass
Windy Point
Six little Porters from Walla Walla
The roster
LOTS of photos all black and white
Shortly after I p.m. on Sunday, October 9, 1966, the engineer of Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge locomotive 484 pulled twice on the whistle cord, notched the throttle hack several inches, and a long string of yellow coaches full of passengers bid farewell to the 10,015-foot heights of Cumbres. Only a few aboard knew that they were riding the last passenger train to reach the Summits; a week before, the Kiwanis Kolor Karavan excursion had been the last passenger train to make the complete run from Alamosa to Durango and back, and Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority excursion to Cumbres was the last to run over the slim-gauge rails between Alamosa and Cumbres. Early in January this year the railroad admitted publicly that it had decided never to run another.
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