Alright, now that we have a very condensed version of the Hocking's history, let's have a look at where I've deviated a bit to set up my alternate history.

First off, there were actually a couple comments on the last post that weren't that far off, I've pasted them below

I don't know how many modelers use youtube to get modeling info but the modern eras guys can learn a lot about trains from watching video. My fav is Stobe the hobo who sadly was killed about a year ago but left and interesting record of the trains and railroad towns in many parts of the country. Great views of rolling stock in operation and trackside scenery from the point of view of the trains. I wish the transition era riders had this modern video equipment so there would have been more stuff from that era....DaveB

Has anyone manufactured a model of the circa-1955 Talgo train? This would be the one built by ACF. I'm not sure if it was built in '55ish or if that's just when it was making a tour of the states, looking for a desperate john. Oh, what coulda/shoulda been! Here it is on the DL&W:

Shorpy.com has recently run a stack of pictures from Russell Lee, including many showing the area served by the Colorado narrow gauge.

I don't know if these images are generally well known or whether they have been published before, but you can see them here (amongst a few other subjects, scroll down a bit for the train stuff).