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Steam Train Hotel owner's ideas for Antonito

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Posted by edblysard on Monday, December 8, 2014 7:11 AM
On paper the idea sounds good, but I wonder at the capacity of the hotel, and if there is available housing to host a retirement community.
Nothing was mentioned as to how many “retirees” the place would hold, or the cost to the retiree.

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Posted by Thechief66 on Sunday, December 7, 2014 9:42 PM

I think anyone who thinks this is a good idea has never been to Antonito...

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Friday, December 5, 2014 1:46 PM

   Steve, thanks for the info.   I hope you're not sorry you posted this.  I wish I could afford to visit.

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Friday, December 5, 2014 1:45 PM

   Both "yard arm" and "yardarm" are spelled correctly.

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Posted by Deggesty on Friday, December 5, 2014 10:56 AM

  Webster's Third New International Dictionary; the verdict is that it is one word, not two--and it is either end of the yard on a square-rigged ship. (A yard on a sailing vessel is not something to play in.)

 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, December 5, 2014 8:29 AM

Yardarm or yard arm ? with no spell check could not determine which.  Yardarm here was chosen as the IT persons were more like pirates that stole from Kalmbach rather than rail workers from a semaphore.

BTW spell check works for Fred Frailey's Blog replies.

PS can anyone find Angela's  original thread so we can keep complaint posts on that one threaad ?

 

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Posted by richg1998 on Thursday, December 4, 2014 11:26 PM

I tried two different ways did not work. I tried the old method and using the Icon. No joy.

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Posted by richg1998 on Thursday, December 4, 2014 11:23 PM

They definitely went low bid with the latest upgrade. Not sure I ever saw any comments by the Powers That Be or I missed them.

Since I use Firefox 33.0, I also have an Add On, United States English Spell checker 7.0.1 which shows misspelled words in other forums, but not here,

Yes I know, don't like it, the forums are free.

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Posted by Deggesty on Thursday, December 4, 2014 10:09 PM

Really, I think a yardarm would be a bit more substantial thatn a semaphore blade. But, I doubt that you would find one near the Kalmbach headquarters. Use a streetlamp?

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:35 PM

"Yard arm"????  How about, "semiphore arm" or "signal bridge"?

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:25 PM

Rader apparently not only our editor cannot make links active but moderators as well.  They really need to hang those IT persons from the highest yard arm. 

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Posted by Rader Sidetrack on Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:20 PM

Apparently its up to me to provide a working active link to that article ... Confused

http://cs.trains.com/trn/b/observation-tower/archive/2014/12/04/antonito-hotel-caters-to-rail-enthusiast-retirees.aspx

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, December 4, 2014 5:18 PM

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Steam Train Hotel owner's ideas for Antonito
Posted by Steve Sweeney on Thursday, December 4, 2014 3:03 PM

Hi, all. 

Thought you might be interested in Chase Gunnoe's interview with Steam Train Hotel's Bob Rainek and his thoughts on what Antonito could become for the area and for Cumbres & Toltec: http://cs.trains.com/trn/b/observation-tower/archive/2014/12/04/antonito-hotel-caters-to-rail-enthusiast-retirees.aspx

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