I’m thinkink about attending one of the week long work sessions this summer on the Cumbres & Toltec RR. Has anyone out there attended one of these sessions? If so, what was your experience there?
Did you enjoy it? would you attend another one?
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Do they even have these sessions anymore? C&TS just announced a completely new management team. I’m doubting that these sorts of things are going to be the same as I believe the work sessions were organized by the former management.
LC
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and add a long forgotten topic to the discussion…what was old becomes new again!
Management firm approved for Cumbres and Toltec
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 28, 2006
CHAMA, N.M. (AP) - A new company has been appointed to manage the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.
The railroad commission earlier this month approved an agreement with C&TS Management Corp. to run the narrow-gauge railroad for the 2006 season.
C&TS replaces the Rio Grande Railway Preservation Corp., which pulled out last year.
The 64-mile railroad, owned by the states of New Mexico and Colorado, runs through the southern Rockies between Chama and Antonito, Colo., from May to October each year.
This year it will operate from May 27 to Oct. 15.
C&TS president and chief executive officer Frank Turner of Angel Fire has more than 40 years of railroad experience.
The other principals of the company include Tim Tennant of Rio Rancho as general manager responsible for day-to-day operations, and directors Amos Cordova of Durango, Colo., Elmer Salazar of Los Alamos and Richard Tower of San Francisco.
Tennant, a former general manager of the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wis., formerly was president of the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, a volunteer group that acts as the railroad’s museum arm.
Cordova, a longtime employee of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, is a retired vice president of marketing for the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Salazar is director of community relations for Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Tower, president of the nonprofit grant-making Candelaria Fund, worked for Amtrak and the Southern Pacific Railroad and was manager of rail operations for the state of Michigan.
The group that actually organizes the work sessions is the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.
Here’s a link to their website:
http://www.cumbrestoltec.org/index.php
They have several contact emails listed, both on the ‘Volunteer’ page and on the ‘Contacts’ page. If you’re interested I’d contact them and ask specifically if the program is being continued.
Please report back on what you find out.
Regards
Ed