Thanks John, and everyone for all the good history and information. I
managed to obtain all of the recommended books too.
I guess that would make us all the same age then John, as I graduated from
Thomas Jefferson in Denver in '63 and started at Regis College that year.
Unfortunately, I moved away from the Denver area in 65 and spent my career
in Southern California.
Bill
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM, John Manion <railbass@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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> >
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