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Dan Robirds

November 16, 2008 08:13PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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No doubt it would have been cheaper to build switchbacks. What this antique pencil-pusher failed to consider is what if it had becaom a busy mainline? Can you imagine Tehachapi Loop, Williams Loop, (fill in your own) being operate under heavy modern traffic as a switchback?

BTW - how would you plow heavy snow off the switchback while backing the train on a switchback? I'm sure a few 1000 feet of switchbacks could be economically covered by snowsheds!

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Was the Georgetown Loop a poor engineering design?	gbrewer	November 16, 2008 10:47AM
Re: Was the Georgetown Loop a poor engineering design?	Steve Dickey	November 16, 2008 07:55PM
Re: Was the Georgetown Loop a poor engineering design?	Dan Robirds	November 16, 2008 08:13PM
Re: Was the Georgetown Loop a poor engineering design?	PhilJ	November 17, 2008 10:15AM
Re: Was the Georgetown Loop a poor engineering design?	GeorgeGaskill	November 19, 2008 12:01PM
Re: Was the Georgetown Loop a poor engineering design?	hank	November 20, 2008 11:25AM
Re: Was the Georgetown Loop a poor engineering design?	GeorgeGaskill	November 20, 2008 11:50AM
Re: Was the Georgetown Loop a poor engineering design?	Mike Trent	November 20, 2008 11:52AM
Georgetown Loop was a great engineering design?	up3985slrg1744	November 21, 2008 10:26AM

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