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Jerry Day

May 06, 2008 06:55AM

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There was a fair amount of D&RG in and around Kokomo until 1910. The D&RG shipped coal from Crested Butte to the smelter there until 1925. In the 1890s and early 1900s, the D&RG would often haul c&S cars out of Kokomo when the C&S high line and line to Como was blocked with snow. The D&RG had an easier time keeping their line to Dillion open than the C&S. The D&RG rotary snow plow would plow the C&S tracks in Kokomo and even plowed the C&S high line back to Leadville a couple of times.

Too bad it did not last longer.

Jerry Day

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