Talk:Southern San Luis Valley Railroad

The SSLV was 1.8 miles long, dammit! :-) (My grandfather owned it.) I'll add to this article in the near future. -- Charlie (Colorado) 05:59, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Charlie, I am sure it once upon a time may have been 1.8 miles but the railroad has bee cut been cut back to its current 1.53 miles.

Okay, I've added stub pages for McClintock and Jaroso. The best source is Colorado's Loneliest Railroad by P. R. Griswold (1980). Amazon doesn't list an ISBN; I'll find my copy and update. -- Charlie (Colorado) 19:02, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd dearly love to talk to whoever wrote this article originally. just by the way. -- Charlie (Colorado) 05:41, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

And I'd dearly love to talk with Charlie (Colorado), as his grandfather owned the SSLV but my grandfather built the SLS and was its first president, back in 1910! Bob Griswold's book is quite good, and it's often available on Amazon and elsewhere as a used book. Bob wrote the book before he and I made contact, and I constantly come back to the book as an excellent source of information. I've inherited some information on the railroad, along with a number of photos of the railroad and of the early days of the Costilla Estates Development Company back in the 1910-1916 era. My father and I visited the railroad in 1955, shortly after the steam engines had been retired to the rotting engine house and after the D-500 took over as the road's one engine. My wife and I visited the railroad in 1994, and our son visited the site some years later. I also had the pleasure of corresponding with George Oringdulph back in the late 1960s-early 1970s. The SLS/SLVS/SSLV was a fascinating little (very) short line. -- Philip C. Brooks Philip C. Brooks (talk) 02:11, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Cleanup template clarification
Could somebody add a reason for cleanup to the template at the top? Thanks. Carrot official (talk) 22:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC)