Colorado Railroad Museum founder Bob Richardson moves a three-way switch at the Narrow Gauge Museum south of Alamosa, Colo., in the mid-1950s. This was the initial gathering point for the collection before it moved to Golden in 1958. The Mears Junction sign is from the place where the Rio Grande’s Marshall Pass and Valley narrow gauge lines joined, named for railroad builder Otto Mears.
Mallory Hope Ferrell photo
We stayed at his Narrow Gauge Motel in South Alamosa several times in the late 1950s-1960 when I was young. I remember standing at that very spot in the photo.