Re: Prison cars?
| November 04, 2019 09:25PM |
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CVR220 Wrote:
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> Now that Colorado is to get a wall on its southern
> border to keep out illegal New Mexicans, will the
> C&TS have to operate prison cars like the SP once
> did at Calexico?
Ah-Yup, but they'll be camouflaged -
Colorado is especially worried about OLD New Mexicans crossing the State Line - which happens only once on NM/CO Highway 17, but 11 times on an eastbound C&TS express . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> Now that Colorado is to get a wall on its southern
> border to keep out illegal New Mexicans, will the
> C&TS have to operate prison cars like the SP once
> did at Calexico?
Ah-Yup, but they'll be camouflaged -
Colorado is especially worried about OLD New Mexicans crossing the State Line - which happens only once on NM/CO Highway 17, but 11 times on an eastbound C&TS express . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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