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December 10, 2012 01:50PM
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Registered: 16 years ago
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jgp1843 Wrote:
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> When Otto first built the toll road, he announced
> plans to lay rails from Ironton to Ouray and run
> cars of ore down grade by gravity, relying on
> brakemen to control the speed, and then haul the
> cars back uphill with mules, all while maintaining
> normal road traffic!
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> I think this didn't happen because there weren't
> enough crazy brakemen. Today he could have
> charged a fee for the privilege.
Sounds like how they started on the slate railways in Wales.
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