Wire mystery....

This ain't 'zactly NG, but I have come up with something I'm having trouble figuring out.

On the D&RGW 2nd and Green River Divisions, Telegraph Offices & calls shows three copper wires, Numbers 207,208 and 209 on the telegraph line that first appear as being in the switchboard at Buena Vista on the 2nd division, and going west from there all the way to Utah on the Green River Division, and probably all the way to Salt Lake.

The wires never indicate being "cut in" anywhere except at Grand Junction W.U. Office, which indicates they were "thru wires" only in the D&RG switchboards at other points for testing purposes.

I remember these three copper wires being in place on the lines when I worked on the D&RGW and I am trying to figure out what they were, originally.
I suspect they were used for transcontinental Quadruplex or Duplex circuits from someplace east to west (Salt Lake & maybe beyond) but I cannot find where they came from in the east. Probably Denver.

What is bugging me is HOW DID THEY ORIGINALLY COME FROM the east to get on the D&RGW line at Buena Vista or somewhere south of there???? They are not shown in the board at Salida at all. Nor were they on the line from Pueblo to Salida.

I don't believe they were on the Colorado Midland. Did they come up
the Denver-Como C&S line and join the D&RG line at Nathrop??

Anybody got any old records that might show these wires on some route
before they got to Buena Vista?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2008 11:04PM by Etrump.