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Eugene Blabey

November 14, 2009 12:04PM

Registered: 15 years ago
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A previous poster mentioned that a picture exists of a Silverton Northern train on the 7 percent grade between Eureka and Animas Forks pulling two boxcars up the hill. The only picture I've seen showing operations on the grade appears on page 42 of Josie Moore Crumb's 1956 booklet "Three Little Lines". It shows a locomotibe pushing two boxcars. That, in fact, is what the caption notes. I'm guessing that on a gradient that severe, the safest way to handle loads was to push them upgrade.

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San Juan Division	gunsnclapton	November 12, 2009 01:13PM
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Re: San Juan Division	Fritz Klinke	November 13, 2009 02:06AM
Re: San Juan Division - On to Howardsville!!	Russo Loco	November 13, 2009 02:34PM
Re: San Juan Division - On to Howardsville!!	chris king	November 13, 2009 03:26PM
Re: San Juan Division - On to Howardsville!!	gunsnclapton	November 13, 2009 03:33PM
Re: San Juan Division - On to Howardsville!!	Dave J	November 13, 2009 03:54PM
Re: San Juan Division - On to Howardsville!!	hwcwsl	November 14, 2009 12:35AM
Re: San Juan Division - On to Howardsville!!	hank	November 14, 2009 10:25AM
Re: San Juan Division - On to Howardsville!!	hogger42	November 14, 2009 06:54AM
Old Hundred and a little SG&N	ROW Explorer	November 14, 2009 09:40AM
Re: Old Hundred and a little SG&N	Fritz Klinke	November 14, 2009 02:48PM
Re: San Juan Division - On to Howardsville!!	Eugene Blabey	November 14, 2009 12:04PM
Re: San Juan Division - On to Howardsville!!	Russo Loco	November 14, 2009 04:47PM

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