Rio Grande Glory Days

By Gilbert A. Lathrop

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870950568
• ISBN13: 9780870950568
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Golden West Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.

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Rio Grande Glory Days

The sight and sound of a narrow-guage railway train rolling through depths of Colorado's Black Canyon of the Gunnison River was Gilbert A. Lathrop's call to adventure. While enameled coaches and diminutive sleepers rolled ranchers, miners and tourists smoothly over the high mountain passes of Western Colorado, young Lathrop sat in the hot cab with his locomotive engineer father on his way to becoming a third generation railroader. Fifteen years of his early manhood followed as roundhouse boy, fireman, brakeman, and sometimes conductor on the lines of the Denver & Rio Grande. Lathrop later quit railroading to write professionally about his experiences. His fast-moving and heart-warming fiction stories of adventure, and tragedy focused on the men who worked the little engines during a time when gold, silver and coal mines poured forth their treasures in an ubiquitous stream. For many years his individual railroad stories and serials depicting blizzards, snowslides and washouts on the Rio Grande became the backbone of the monthly Railroad Stories and Railroad Magazine. Rio Grande Glory Days is, of course, autobiographical. The story of Lathrop's growing-up years in Cimarron, Colorado, were placed in sequence with selections from material originally written for Railroad Magazine to represent Gilbert A. Lathrop's years on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway as completely as possible. --- from book's dustjacket