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nickgully

September 05, 2020 08:34PM

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If you follow the train sheets, I think the 3rd division will win hands down. Biggest rail, and biggest engines (K-37's).

And if the notoriously frugal Rio Grande would spend on a rotary car dumper, you know there was volume to be had.

With coal and limestone, they fed the furnaces of Pueblo.

-Nick

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