Re: RR Structures between Farmington and Durango

Thanks Dennis. As to that rotary.

Well we're in Southern California now. Nice sunny, and warm conditions with loads of snow in the local mountains. However as you know, the snow has been incredible this year in Southwestern Colorado. If we tried to run a train now it would be under several feet of snow

BTW, the rotary only works in light powder. Pilot plows work better in thicker stuff. I wonder how well this correlates to the real thing?

We traveled to Colorado right after Christmas. The snow coverage was pretty good then (average), a little under a foot on the ground. We hoped to run some trains but the snow had compacted and turned to rock hard ice on the bottom. The tracks were pretty much unreachable. So most of the time was spent sledding, and just having fun in the snow. Soon after we left, a massive storm came through and knocked out the power there for many days. I haven't heard much from our neighbor lately so I'm hoping the snow isn't too deep after the latest dumping.

But with all the snow it definitely means our artesian well will overflow...which is great since this excess water (when we get it) makes for some nice water features on the layout.

During exceptional snow years the well will run pretty much continuously from around late April to late August. But this is pretty rare and since we've been there (17 years) it's overflowed continuously till August for only 4 years/seasons. Some years it never overflows. Just depends on how much recharge the aquifer gets.

Matt
Lake Forest, CA
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