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Jerry Day

January 15, 2008 09:13PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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They are both right. The D&RGW could not rebuilt all of them in one year. They did some each year until they were all done. They were also rebuilding some 4000 series cars as well. The Alamosa car shops were so busy, the D&RGW rebuilt most of the high side gons in Salida.

Jerry Day
Longmont, CO

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3000 series box car	jeffsmith	January 15, 2008 08:40PM
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