Starting with a little known Indian Battle on top of the Cumbres,
and moving rapidly forward in history, the story of "The Little
Train That Would Not Die" creates a tale of the West seldom told
today. While some of it was lived out in the 1800s, the major
portion of this book centers around the heroic efforts of ordinary
men accomplishing the impossible through ordinary means in the
1960s and 1970s. It is a story packed with action, adventure and
passion that interweaves with the lives of General William J.
Palmer, Bat Masterson, and singing star, Gene Autry. But most of
all it is a passionate tale of the lives of men who dared to dream
big and found success even when the deck was stacked against them.
They were train buffs, steam fans, senators, family men. They were
men who saw a piece of Americana slipping away and they were damned
if they were going to let that happen. Like my father said, "they
were the most over enthusiastic, unbusiness-like fools that ever
set foot in shoe leather," but they got the job done and the
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is their living monument of
hope to future generations. This is their story, but it's also
mine. As a 9 year old girl, I rode on the Cumbres & Toltec when
it first started out. By the time I was 14 years old, I was drummed
into Engine 463's "boiler maker corps" working along side my dad
and three other guys, forever losing my heart to that little
engine. I remember the blisters and aching muscles, the heart ache
and joy. It is my hope that a piece of that has been capture on
these pages and that this train will go to future generations
forever being "The Little Train That Would Not Die."
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