Re: Summer Idyll
Posted by South Park on Jul 16, 2016; 2:55am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Summer-Idyll-tp5549p5617.html
In the summer of 1977 I stumbled upon the tie-strewn South Park right-of-way as it
fell away toward Salt Springs from Trout Creek Pass. We stopped the car and got out
to look. It was bizarre. The telegraph poles still stood, the place looked like it just
needed rails, and it was back in business. And those tiny ties .... what was this that
I was looking at ? 1977 was a tough time to be researching a long-gone railroad in a
distant state, but the more I learned, the more "magical" it became !
It was a fairy tale story in many ways from the first days of John Evan's narrow gauge
dream. The area and times and microcosm world it fed was indeed a magical place in
history.
While I'd love to restore or scratch build a locomotive like the 1880 Baldwin 2-8-0's
in my ample shop, availability and practical use thereof sadly limits chasing that magic.
I am forced to choose a moderately more practical route of frivolous rejoicing:
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In the summer of 1977 I stumbled upon the tie-strewn South Park right-of-way as it
fell away toward Salt Springs from Trout Creek Pass. We stopped the car and got out
to look. It was bizarre. The telegraph poles still stood, the place looked like it just
needed rails, and it was back in business. And those tiny ties .... what was this that
I was looking at ? 1977 was a tough time to be researching a long-gone railroad in a
distant state, but the more I learned, the more "magical" it became !
It was a fairy tale story in many ways from the first days of John Evan's narrow gauge
dream. The area and times and microcosm world it fed was indeed a magical place in
history.
While I'd love to restore or scratch build a locomotive like the 1880 Baldwin 2-8-0's
in my ample shop, availability and practical use thereof sadly limits chasing that magic.
I am forced to choose a moderately more practical route of frivolous rejoicing:
"Duty above all else except Honor"
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