Welcome! Log In Create A New Profile

Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW

Forum List Message List New Topic Print View

u3o8geo

December 10, 2017 10:51AM

Registered: 16 years ago
Posts: 36

The initial supplies of uranium for the first two atomic bombs came from the Congo and from northern Canada, not the vanadium mills in the Placerville area. Work on the western Colorado uranium deposits did not start in great earnest until the latter part of the war, and thereafter. As far as radium is concerned, the Uravan area was a major source of the element, however volumes were on the order of grams, not pounds or tons of radium. The article "Atomic Age Narrow Gauge" is a great read about the RGS and uranium.

TED
u308geo

Reply Quote

Message List Previous Message Next Message

RSS

Subject	Author	Posted
Military traffic on the D&RGW	Martyn J Chapman	December 09, 2017 03:14AM
Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW	hank	December 09, 2017 07:02AM
Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW	RichB	December 09, 2017 07:04AM
Troop trains, Royal Gorge and that Demon Rum. (was: Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW)	hank	December 10, 2017 10:20AM
Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW	RDannemann	December 09, 2017 08:22AM
Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW	Kelly Anderson	December 09, 2017 08:45AM
Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW	johnegert	December 09, 2017 11:31AM
Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW	Tomstp	December 09, 2017 02:49PM
Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW	rdamurphy	December 10, 2017 08:26AM
Re: Military traffic on the D&RGW	u3o8geo	December 10, 2017 10:51AM

Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.

Click here to login

488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter

The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.