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From: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 05:09:12 -0600
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Bill -
Hol Wagner and I went to high school together, and he started me on CB&Q and
railfanning in the early 1960s.   We made trips to the Great Western, rode
behind C&S #638, and chased her last run in Dec 62 to Trinidad.   In 1963, I
started college at CSU in Fort Collins.   During that year, Q was still
running the school children's specials, including one in Fort Collins.   I
chased Q #4960 down Mason Street on my bicycle, shooting B&W with my
Rolleicord.   I still have the negatives and am planning on making prints to
send to BRHS.
- John Manion

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Bill Stack <wgstack276@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Thanks for all the great information.
>
> Mark, thanks for the suggestions, I now have both the books you mentioned,
> thanks to eBay.
>
> John, all off you information brought back many memories. I had forgotten
> about Buchtel Blvd. I appreciate the time you took to be so thorough.
>
> Hol, thank you so much. Here I thought I was the only kid who got to ride
> on
> the Conners Branch local. I guess my time line would have been 1959 and
> 1960. I rode my bike down to the Colorado Blvd. crossing. From my home, I
> could hear the train cross University Blvd. and if I rode like hell, I
> could
> get there before they did. For weeks I watched, standing out of the way.
> One
> day the old train foreman said to me "Wanna ride?" Well, that started it. I
> rode to the end of the line, watched as they turned the train around, then
> rode back. But they had there fun with me that first time. One the way
> back,
> they told me they were running late and would not be able to stop at
> Colorado Blvd. (how gullible was I?). They said I would have to get off the
> moving train. Wow, that was great I thought. So one of the crew
> demonstrated
> how to do it from the back of the caboose. He said walk to the bottom step,
> face the opposite direction the train was moving, and put your leg down and
> just step off. Well of course you know, immediately I was running backwards
> faster than the train was moving, until I went head-over-heals. They
> probably thought they would never see me again, but undaunted, I returned
> the next week. They let me ride for over a year, and even let me do some
> uncoupling and breaking the caboose to slow it down, until the old foreman
> retired. The new foreman had more to lose, so he didn't let me. The old
> engineer let me ride in the cab a couple more times, but the new foreman
> put
> a stop to it.
>
> Again, thanks all for the help.
>
> Bill
>
> --
>
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