Books on the C&S/DSP&P

[Fatbiker52]

Mike, it's 'ONLY' 79F at 8am. Sauna already going strong. I'm in Silverhill, Baldwin county. But my heart's in Colorado.  
Fred

[ComoDepot]

Has been raining here every day now for nearly 2 weeks, unbelievable.

Perhaps turn the Turntable pit into a duck pond?

[South Park]

  We all make choices, Gents.

  I found a thermometer after walking into the blast furnace in AFG.  
It read 139º.  Later they downranged me to Helmand.  It was so #@!
hot it was nauseating.  The thermometer at the gate was pegged at
130º every morning by 0800.  I later got an oven thermometer that
read from 100º and up and set it in the shade.  From 01 June through
September, it read 155º from 1100hrs to 2000hrs.

  But is was a "dry" heat !  



  I will never complain about the heat again.  In three tours, never
once did I get sent to the high country during summer.  They reserved
that treat for the winter months, when 8,000+ elevations made life
miserable for cold to match the lowland summer heat.

[Fatbiker52]

But...."it's a dry heat"...just what I told myself in Yuma Arizona...107 at 1am.
I just now ensure while my utility bills go sky high.
Fred

[Fatbiker52]

Auto correct strikes again...I just endure not ensure. Lol.
Fred

[Mike Trent]

Ah, Redneck Riviera Country.

At least this year, we have been getting pretty good rainfall.

I spent most of 2015 in Muscle Shoals. Loved it there, but sure was hot in the Summer. Over here on the East side, we have pretty nice weather most of the time. I spend most of my free time here in Dickey Colorado, where the temperature in the summer ranges between 71 and 74 degrees. Most pleasant. If you ever stray up this way, stop in and visit.

[Fatbiker52]

We just might take you up on that. I am an avid cyclist, I ride what is called a 'fat bike'. It's the monster truck of mountain biking. I would love to try to ride parts of the grade out in Colorado. When our kids were little we lived for a while in Eastern Utah. We loved the Gunnison country and would take long weekend trips there. We camped alongside the river north of town and would wadw across and explore that other rr relic bed.
Fred

On Jul 26, 2017 12:49 PM, "Mike Trent [via C&Sng Discussion Forum]" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ah, Redneck Riviera Country.

At least this year, we have been getting pretty good rainfall.

I spent most of 2015 in Muscle Shoals. Loved it there, but sure was hot in the Summer. Over here on the East side, we have pretty nice weather most of the time. I spend most of my free time here in Dickey Colorado, where the temperature in the summer ranges between 71 and 74 degrees. Most pleasant. If you ever stray up this way, stop in and visit.

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[South Park]

"I spend most of my free time ..... "

  Maybe I missed something in geography class, but  ....  just how close is Dickey to Scottsboro ?  

[Jim Courtney]

I have found that biking old C&S grades is more pleasant going downgrade.

[Fatbiker52]

My bike can handle what ever you want to throw at it
 Fred

[Mike Trent]

Very close.

It's a state of mind.

[Fatbiker52]

Mike: isn't Dickey, well kinda under water?
Fred

[Mike Trent]

In my little corner of the world, it's 1935. Most noticeably #72 still has a box headlight, and Rotary 99200 still has a wood body. So the Como Roundhouse fire hasn't happened yet. Sure, the Blue gets a little high now and again, but certainly no flooding.

Like I said, Dickey is a state of mind....

[Fatbiker52]

Like for me in my little corner of the kingdom the unfinished Ohio Creek extension was completed and trains run up the pass and over to my fictional town of Kebler. #22 and #21 still run and business is good.
Fred

On Jul 29, 2017 3:06 PM, "Mike Trent [via C&Sng Discussion Forum]" <[hidden email]> wrote:

In my little corner of the world, it's 1935. Most noticeably #72 still has a box headlight, and Rotary 99200 still has a wood body. So the Como Roundhouse fire hasn't happened yet. Sure, the Blue gets a little high now and again, but certainly no flooding.

Like I said, Dickey is a state of mind....

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[SteveG]

Also worth checking for used books on Amazon. There were a number of copies of the Pictorial Supplement at prices ranging from ~$60 up to $375 last week; I found (and bought!) a numbered limited edition signed by all three authors for $70:


Steve Guty

[Mike Trent]

Very cool, Steve! Your post prompted me to look at my copy, which was my Dad's.

It is signed only by Kindig to my Dad. Man, if I'd been aware of this, I'd have had Ed Haley sign it during the time I was good friends with him in the 80's, and he was so much help to me with so many things.

I never knew Mac Poor, but I did know Dick Kindig.

Lastly, my Dad's copy number, was simply, "M.C.T.", his initials. In every other way, it is the same as yours. Apparently, members of the Rocky Mountain RR Club were afforded personalized volume edition numbers.  

I'll bet there are a number of other copies floating around out there which have personalized edition copies like this one does.

Anyway, congratulations, you really got a good price on it, and it will be a treasured addition to your collection. One of the best things about it is Ed's Index, which he spent weeks compiling. I often start looking in the Pictorial Supplement out of that index if I'm looking for something specific in a hurry.

Ed was a great help with the "Goin Railroading" project in several ways and was always an inspiration and mentor as a researcher. He was also willing to graciously share photos and information any time. I really miss him. Much of what I've been able to share on this forum and in the #74 project came from sources he pointed me toward, or shared himself.  

[Rick Steele]

Hi Mike,

My copy of "Rails Around Gold Hill", another Rocky Club Publication, was a copy given to the Rocky Mountain News. I got it from ebay... No number just from the RMN.

Rick

[John Greenly]

The copy I have of the Pictorial Supplement had a nice surprise when I received it (by mail from an independent bookseller):



The listing didn't mention that it was signed, or that it was a complimentary copy to the chief of the Burlington.  I'm not sure that Mr. Murphy read it, it appears completely unused.

John

[SteveG]

Thanks, Mike. I have a feeling that my bookseller may not have had a full grasp of the value, but that's what makes markets interesting. Your comment about the Goin' Railroading book prompted me to check my copy, and it appears to be a first edition, first printing, given the presence of the "1" on the line below "First Edition".

For added provenance, my then-wife bought it for me at the general store in Como, when we took a side trip from a skiing vacation back in 1988.
If I run into you at a narrow gauge convention, I have to ask you to sign my copy. :)

Steve

[Mike Trent]

John, I'll be glad to get Margi Coel to sign it for you, if you want, I'll sign it too, but I only helped "fire" on this project. Thanks, though, I do appreciate it.

Mike