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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
Goldhedge
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Log Trains to Rockwood [on the Durango and Silverton]
During a fire mitigation project in early 2024, Colorado's Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad volunteered rail equipment and crews to move logs from the job site to waiting log trucks at Rockwood. Most of the work was done with a former White Pass and Yukon MLW diesel number 101. For one day (just for our cameras) K-36 steam locomotive number 480 was steamed up to pull the log train. Steam combined with cold winter air made for an unforgettable experience.Some of these scenes appear in our DVD and Blu-ray "Today's Durango and Silverton."
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0:00 The Durango and Silverton
1:36 The Forest Treatment Project
5:13 Prepping the Log Train
7:30 The First Load of Logs
14:10 Rockwood
18:50 Durango and the Polar Express Trains
20:17 The 480 Runs Light
24:06 Riding the Steam Powered Log Train
32:52 Unloading Logs at Rockwood
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