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Grant Houston

June 20, 2001 10:06AM

I think you are thinking of the Calumet branch, that had something like 7+% grades. I don't know what it was good for, but there are several early shots with low-side gons there around 1900. It was torn up in 1923.

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Branch Line question	Scott Green	June 20, 2001 09:56AM
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