Jerry Day's discussion about MOW work in the 40's made me wonder about rail maintenance on the Narrow Gauge.
I've seen modern UP work crews putting a shiny new perfect profile on the MP,SP,and MKT lines here in Texas, but wondered if the D&RG ever did this. The technology might not have been around then, but I thought I'd ask.
I know there are plenty of pieces of rail along the C&TS that are worn on both edges, sometimes to failure, but did rail profiling happen on these lines? Might they have pulled up rail, hauled it to a maintenance yard and reground it in a shop?
Finally, how much difference in capacity would it make to a K-36 or K-37 pulling a load to have a properly shaped railhead?
Tom