Re: Telegraph wires

Etrump Wrote:
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> I'm still trying to find out what that WU wire
> number was, it most likely took terminal battery
> at Durango WU on the southern end and probably
> Montrose WU on the northern end, according to
> usual WU
> practices, since there were no other large WU
> offices near anywhere else on the RGS line.

According to the " Official Roster no.11 of the Denver and Rig Grande Western Railroad System and the Rio Grande Southern Railroad Company"
(1923, reprinted by CRRM 1998) page 128 the WU wire was 102.
On the RGS station listing the wires run from Ouray(Ou, Ay) to Ridgway(Wy, Ds) and then on to Durango(Dg, Du).

There is a note below the station list to the effect that:"No.102 wire works through to Grand Junction."

Hank