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drgw0579

September 05, 2020 06:43PM

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A conversation today resulted in a question for the narrow gauge experts:

"Where was the busiest main line on the Rio Grande narrow gaurge, fort any time period?" You could even expand that to "Busiest Colorado narrow gauge".

How "busiest" is defined is up to you. It could be amount of tonnage, the number of trains, or even the combination of everything that resulted in the most track maintenance requirements.

I'm wondering how the D&SNG faired when they ran 4 roundtrips to Silverton and a Cascade turn daily.

Bill Kepner

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Busiest DRGW main line?	drgw0579	September 05, 2020 06:43PM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	hank	September 05, 2020 07:22PM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	James	September 06, 2020 09:12AM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	hank	September 05, 2020 07:31PM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	nickgully	September 05, 2020 08:34PM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	Jerry474	September 05, 2020 09:31PM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	BillGrierson	September 06, 2020 08:55AM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	STUDENT	September 06, 2020 11:04AM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	Sharrod	September 07, 2020 06:08AM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	jim pallow	September 06, 2020 12:24PM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	Cymro	September 09, 2020 01:04PM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	Brian Norden	September 09, 2020 04:10PM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	Earl	September 09, 2020 02:45PM
Re: Busiest DRGW main line?	John K	September 09, 2020 03:42PM

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