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pher, he traveled extensively through- out the dwindling narrow gauge empire from the 1940’s through to the end of Rio Grande operations in 1968. His pho- tographs were timely, compelling, ma- jestic, artistic and insightful. He docu- mented people, places and events with humor and determination, being out in the snow and freezing weather long af- ter most of us would have headed for a warm hotel room. He was also responsi- ble for saving countless artifacts (rang- ing from locomotives to switch stands) and documents recording the history of the narrow gauge lines, but in particu- lar the Rio Grande Southern and the Denver & Rio Grande. We all owe him a great debt of thanks for his many con- tributions, including being one of the co- founders of the wonderful Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden. I can’t begin to claim this is an unbi-


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ased review of this beautiful book fea- turing Bob Richardson’s photography. He has long been a hero of mine, and I first met him when we visited the Col- orado Railroad Museum on our honey- moon in 1969. (It wasn’t the only desti- nation of course, there was the Grand Canyon, Alamosa and Chama, but it was a very important one.) Correspon- dence and occasional visits were al- ways a delight, and I looked forward to receiving Narrow Gauge News in the


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black and white photos of the RGS in large format, with many full-page size. There are also many reproductions of interesting timetables, forms, letters, letterheads, tickets and similar items that Bob salvaged in great quantities when the RGS was being abandoned and this historical treasure was going to be burned. He carted it home by the box full, and with some sorting pro- duced an amazing documentation of the railroad. Of course he couldn’t get it all but what he saved was monumen- tal and gives many insights into the railroad’s day-to-day operations, its equipment, trials and tribulations. This was a process Bob repeated on a number of occasions and the records that he salvaged are now an important and very extensive and valuable archival holding at the Colorado Rail- road Museum. Take time to look at the forms and papers carefully; some are simply interesting or decorative pieces from an earlier era, but others are very informative about how the railroad op- erated. The Ridgway train register


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