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mikerowe

May 30, 2010 04:19PM

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The Arkansas Valley Railroad in Colorado, stretching from Kit Carson, CO, on the Santa Fe, to Las Animas, CO, on the Kansas Pacific, for a distance of 76.5 miles, opened in 1873 and was abandoned in 1877. This was Colorado's first major rail abandonment. Pushed by Pueblo, CO, interests, the line was supposed to funnel Kansas Pacific traffic to and from Pueblo via the Santa Fe. Cooperation between the two major railroads was never forthcoming, and the line quickly starved to death. Probably a rail line that never should have been built in the first place.

Mike Rowe

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NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	Brian Norden	May 30, 2010 03:33PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	mikerowe	May 30, 2010 04:19PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	CharlieMcCandless	May 30, 2010 04:39PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	Brian Norden	May 31, 2010 11:33AM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	dougvv	May 30, 2010 05:25PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	Brian Norden	May 31, 2010 11:30AM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	dougvv	May 31, 2010 04:28PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	Eugene Blabey	May 31, 2010 08:09PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	myork	June 01, 2010 08:27AM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	Brian Norden	June 01, 2010 07:58PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	Skip	May 31, 2010 12:49PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	hank	June 01, 2010 11:00AM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	dougvv	June 01, 2010 11:42AM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	myork	June 01, 2010 02:26PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	dougvv	June 01, 2010 02:41PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	Eugene Blabey	June 01, 2010 05:17PM
Re: NNG? - early, major railroad abandonments?	Rick Steele	June 02, 2010 12:56PM

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