December 05, 2004 11:26AM
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Good Question! There were wyes at Dixie and Prairie City, but no loop closer than Austin. They kept a plow at Austin and it would be theoretically possible to turn there and run back up to Dixie, but not likely. Maybe they used the logger method, which was a wooden wedge chained to the pilot beam and slid on the rails. While fairly heavy these could be moved around by hand, or rather lots of hands. There were loggers working around Dixie, so possibly they kept the switchbacks open. With a geared locomotive the wedge could be shoved aside and then re-attached to the other end. Several of these wedges are still laying around the woods, and I suspect their useful life was fairly short.
Most likely though would be to dig out either the middle leg of the switchback or the East leg of the wye by hand. Labor was cheap in those days, and in winter would be readily available.
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