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Herb Kelsey

August 13, 2010 12:56AM

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Looking at Employee's Timetables from 1923, 1933 and 1948 the car capacities at Ames are listed as 5, 15 and 2 respectively. I believe the five car spur was the original and those two spurs you show were built to assist in the repair of the Ames slide and gradually disappeared over the years.

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RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	ROW Explorer	August 12, 2010 10:11PM
Re: RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	Herb Kelsey	August 13, 2010 12:56AM
Re: RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	Dick Bell	August 13, 2010 02:51PM
Re: RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	ROW Explorer	August 13, 2010 07:24PM
Re: RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	tomc	August 13, 2010 08:32PM
Re: RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	ROW Explorer	August 13, 2010 10:29PM
Re: RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	HighCommander	August 13, 2010 04:21PM
Re: RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	ROW Explorer	August 13, 2010 07:01PM
Re: RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	ROW Explorer	August 15, 2010 05:52PM
Re: RGS - 2 spurs near Ames Tank	tomc	August 18, 2010 11:29AM

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