Steam & Excursion > C&TSRR = Ed Stabler Train

Ed's family rode the C&TSRR Saturday June 10th. The C&TSRR was one of Ed's Favorite places.

Ed Stabler = 07-26-42 - 01-26-17 Godspeed Ed.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

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Ed was a great friend, a true gentleman, a wonderful singer and a killer guitar picker. All things that I inspire to be.

Highball, Ed.

Earlk Wrote:
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> Ed was a great friend, a true gentleman, a
> wonderful singer and a killer guitar picker. All
> things that I inspire to be.
>
> Highball, Ed.


Thank you for your nice comment.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

A very poignant tribute. Thank you for the post.

I presume he is shoveling in bags of sand with the coal. Thought at first that he was going to warm up his lunch.

Tom

UP3806 Wrote:
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> A very poignant tribute. Thank you for the post.
>
> I presume he is shoveling in bags of sand with the
> coal. Thought at first that he was going to warm
> up his lunch.
>
> Tom

The bags had Ed's ashes. This was his request.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

Was that the same think done for Dan Ranger with the bags and coal???

That certainly is a very special tribute. I didn't in any way mean to make light of what was happening.

Tom

vcrdenny Wrote:
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> Was that the same think done for Dan Ranger with
> the bags and coal???


Yes we did the same thing for Dan.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

UP3806 Wrote:
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> That certainly is a very special tribute. I didn't
> in any way mean to make light of what was
> happening.
>
> Tom

No to worry Tom. I didn't take your comment in a negative way.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

Okay, Roger. I LIKE this song. Whats the title and artist? (Sounds like Loretta Lynn but I don't find it online).

Ed in ABQ

Ed, that's Patsy Cline, "Life is Like a Mountain Railroad."

Roger,
Thanks and if I could have been there I would have been on the train with Dan.
We go way back and I first met Dan and his wife in Maui.
I have escorted train tours since 1984 while still working for the airlines.
Hope to finally meet you as I have done the Colorado trip for over 16 years with groups averaging 38-40 people and the Cumbres is number one in 99% of my customers. I usually drive down to Chama and spend 2-3 nights
taking pictures. Use to have breakfast with Dan on these days and spend hours talking about SP, Maui, Roaring Camp, and twice the Cumbres & Toltec.
Thanks again,
Denny Thompson

PS-love your pictures especially those from the air.

Auburn_Ed Wrote:
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> Okay, Roger. I LIKE this song. Whats the title
> and artist? (Sounds like Loretta Lynn but I don't
> find it online).
>
> Ed in ABQ

I think it is Railway to Heaven.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

vcrdenny Wrote:
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> Roger,
> Thanks and if I could have been there I would have
> been on the train with Dan.
> We go way back and I first met Dan and his wife in
> Maui.
> I have escorted train tours since 1984 while still
> working for the airlines.
> Hope to finally meet you as I have done the
> Colorado trip for over 16 years with groups
> averaging 38-40 people and the Cumbres is number
> one in 99% of my customers. I usually drive down
> to Chama and spend 2-3 nights
> taking pictures. Use to have breakfast with Dan on
> these days and spend hours talking about SP, Maui,
> Roaring Camp, and twice the Cumbres & Toltec.
> Thanks again,
> Denny Thompson
>
> PS-love your pictures especially those from the
> air.

Thanks for your nice comment.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

nycman Wrote:
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> Ed, that's Patsy Cline, "Life is Like a Mountain Railroad."


Wacky-roger1942 Wrote:
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> I think it is Railway to Heaven.


Jim and Roger, you're both close. The name is "Life's Railway to Heaven".

From cyberhymal.org: "The or­i­gin of this song is murky. Eliza R. Snow may have writ­ten the orig­in­al lyr­ics, with M. E. Ab­bey (a Bap­tist min­is­ter in Georg­ia in the 1890s) sup­ply­ing the chor­us. There is a sim­i­lar po­em/hymn by Snow, called “Truth Re­flects upon Our Sens­es,” which Till­man put to this same tune in 1909. At any rate, Ab­bey and Till­man co­py­right­ed “Life’s Rai­lway to Heav­en” in 1890. It has long been a fa­vo­rite in the rail­road­ing com­mun­i­ty."

The music was composed by Charles D. Tillman (1861-1943) who be­gan his ca­reer as a sing­ing evan­gel­ist at the age of 26 and later formed his own mu­sic pub­lish­ing house. The hymn, which is in the public domain, has four verses as seen in the attached picture.

There's also another railway-themed hymn, "Life's Railway", with words and music written in 1922 by Will O. Jones. Also comprised of four verses and a refrain, part of its tune is quite similar to "Life's Railway to Heaven".

"Life's Railway to Heaven" just happens to be still sitting on my piano as I was planning on using it for my wife Alyce's memorial service 4½ weeks ago. As it turned out it didn't happen because the pianist whom our daughter wanted to use for the service can't read music (he plays only by ear) and didn't know the hymn.

I'm hoping that the SP&S 700 will still be running when my ashes are ready to go into a firebox. If not, there's also several logging lokies that I've fired and run that I'd be proud to pass through!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/19/17 05:03 by Jim700.

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vcrdenny Wrote:
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> Roger,
> Thanks and if I could have been there I would have been on the train with Dan.
> We go way back and I first met Dan and his wife in Maui. I have escorted train
> tours since 1984 while still working for the airlines.
> Hope to finally meet you as I have done the Colorado trip for over 16 years with
> groups averaging 38-40 people and the Cumbres is number one in 99% of my customers.
> I usually drive down to Chama and spend 2-3 nights taking pictures. Used to have
> breakfast with Dan on these days and spend hours talking about SP, Maui, Roaring
> Camp, and twice the Cumbres & Toltec.
> Thanks again,
> Denny Thompson


I also had the pleasure of visiting in Dan's home when I was helping Denny escort Rail Travel Center tours. I'm grateful that I had the privilege of knowing him.

nycman Wrote:
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> Ed, that's Patsy Cline, "Life is Like a Mountain
> Railroad."


While I've heard the name of the singer "Patsy Cline", I don't know her voice. But I find it interesting that the singer here apparently is not familiar with the verb "quail" which is used in the hymn and is much more descriptive of the situation at hand than the word "fail" that she uses instead, as heard at 06:30 in Roger's video.