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Etrump

December 01, 2009 11:26AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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Anything over 35 mph is pretty much fabrication,exept perhaps on the
"racetrack" between Alamosa and Antonito...then maybe 40 mph tops.

Scheduled time for the San Juan passenger train between Chama and Durango was five hours and the distance was 111 miles. That is an average speed of 22 mph.

Making that trip in five hours westbound was running a k28 flat out whenever possible with safety...

This I can tell you from personal experience, having made the run in five hours one night when firing the 476 for Bill Holt (who just loved to run fast...). He told me we would make "San Juan Time". We did.

We were moving some empty passenger equipment back to Durango to get it there in time for the second Silverton run.

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Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	sbc1344	December 01, 2009 02:02AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Jeff Taylor	December 01, 2009 02:18AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Greg Scholl	December 01, 2009 07:42AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	hank	December 01, 2009 07:53AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Jerry Day	December 01, 2009 08:47AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Etrump	December 01, 2009 11:26AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	bookemdanno	December 01, 2009 09:18AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	John C	December 01, 2009 10:50AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	CharlieMcCandless	December 01, 2009 11:41AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	John E. Bull	December 01, 2009 08:48PM
Re: Speed on other ng lines	Brian Norden	December 01, 2009 09:17PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	BobHuddleston	December 01, 2009 09:36PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Etrump	December 01, 2009 10:24PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	John E. Bull	December 02, 2009 06:44AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	george pearce	December 02, 2009 09:58AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Russo Loco	December 02, 2009 11:49AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Earl	December 02, 2009 12:23PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Russo Loco	December 03, 2009 01:45PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	bookemdanno	December 03, 2009 02:03PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Russo Loco	December 03, 2009 04:49PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	bookemdanno	December 03, 2009 05:29PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	hank	December 02, 2009 12:26PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	CharlieMcCandless	December 02, 2009 12:32PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Jerry Day	December 02, 2009 12:46PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	hank	December 02, 2009 08:22PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	mikerowe	December 02, 2009 09:36PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	John Cole	December 02, 2009 11:21PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	dandtsrr2	December 03, 2009 01:16AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	BrianJ	December 03, 2009 08:45PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Russo Loco	December 03, 2009 09:53PM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	Etrump	December 04, 2009 12:58AM
Re: Speed on the D&RGW ng lines	jim pallow	December 04, 2009 06:22PM

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