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Silverton City Hall. An unfortunate sign of the times.
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Judith
8/28/2020 08:05:21 pm
Well, it took a bit of sleuthing, but I finally found out who DOES own the railroad. They own other historical/scenic/tourist rail lines as well. Kind of a fun investment that has apparently paid off. I rode it in 1959, when I was 14. Never been on it since, but I remember it well. A cool and damp summer day in the Rockies....and I learned that coal is really dirty. A fun trip. Thanks for the latest version of things there.
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Tom
8/28/2020 09:13:55 pm
Doing some complicated math tells me you're a baby boomer like me.
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Linda Sand
8/29/2020 02:56:52 pm
We rode that train both directions about 40 years ago. Our daughter hung out the open-side car so came back with a face full of soot. Good memories. The ride; not the soot.
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Tom
8/29/2020 03:18:07 pm
Imagine what it was like in the old days to ride a train like that all the way across the country. You probably didn't even have to hang your head out the window to get covered in soot. After days of riding the train the soot would find you no matter where you were. But no matter how bad the soot was, it was a thousand times better than riding a stagecoach.
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Judith
8/29/2020 07:35:51 pm
I learned recently that I am, having been born in '45, a "war baby."
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Tom
8/30/2020 08:40:42 am
I had never heard that before. But I guess it makes sense, if you were born during the war that is different than those of us born in "46" when so many GIs came home and flooded the country with new babies nine months later, or in some cases five months later.
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Frank Souze
8/30/2020 03:43:22 pm
Oh man - good stuff Tom- Beatles were cool but I was more of a Stones guy - Didn't know I missed Woodstock until I completed my govt sponsored tour of Southeast Asia.
Tom
8/30/2020 04:23:42 pm
I was a Stones guy myself and still am. I considered the Beatles bubblegum music. I could've added a whole bunch of rock groups to the incomprehensible lyrics list, but Bob Dylan was one of the first ones I could remember sitting around the barracks discussing the lyrics of Subterranean Homesick Blues. Knowing full well that I didn't know what hardly any of it meant, but I still wanted to feel like I was part of the in crowd. Even though in 1965 I couldn't have been more OUT of the IN crowd and being in the military.
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