Re: Alamosa January 27 1945

Hey Jimmy,

This week's posts showing the D&S crew trying to plow and flange and spread up as far as Cascade make me wonder how the branch was kept open all the way to Silverton in winter when it only had Tuesday-Saturday service. Clearly Colorado had plenty of snow back in the day, since your posts show lots of time spent flanging yards and sidings. Would section crews have kept the Silverton branch open with speeders and other equipment whose movements wouldn't have been recorded? Would MOW-only trains on the Silverton branch turn up in the records if any ran?

And thanks again for these posts!

-- Lawrence

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Lawrence Biemiller
Washington, D.C.