Re: Montrose sugar beets November 3 1948
| May 19, 2016 02:05PM |
davegrandt Wrote:
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> I believe these sugar beet shipments originated at
> Colona on the Ouray Branch.
>
> Bob Richardson mentioned these shipments in, I
> believe, Narrow Gauge News.
>
> From the D&RGW Narrow gauge report. Sugar beet
> traffic on the Ouray branch was 339 car loads in
> 1941 down to 104 cars in 1948
> on the cedar creek lin 59 cars in 1941, and 16 in
> 1948
>
> Here is an early, about 1913, view
> [cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org]
> /collection/p15330coll22/id/6896/rec/1
Interesting view Dave. So I guess then the transfer from NG to STD was by shoveling? out a high side gondola into an adjacent standard gauge gon. ? Gives new meaning to the guy who did the work so when he would come home and tell the wife that "he really got beet up at work today"...
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> I believe these sugar beet shipments originated at
> Colona on the Ouray Branch.
>
> Bob Richardson mentioned these shipments in, I
> believe, Narrow Gauge News.
>
> From the D&RGW Narrow gauge report. Sugar beet
> traffic on the Ouray branch was 339 car loads in
> 1941 down to 104 cars in 1948
> on the cedar creek lin 59 cars in 1941, and 16 in
> 1948
>
> Here is an early, about 1913, view
> [cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org]
> /collection/p15330coll22/id/6896/rec/1
Interesting view Dave. So I guess then the transfer from NG to STD was by shoveling? out a high side gondola into an adjacent standard gauge gon. ? Gives new meaning to the guy who did the work so when he would come home and tell the wife that "he really got beet up at work today"...
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