Re: Changes at Cripple Creek & Victor RR
| April 22, 2014 09:44AM |
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South Park Wrote:
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> If this were 1885 or 1902, no one would begin to
> think that preserving an old ROW overruled the
> mining. Tracks got moved all the time to
> facilitate getting at the ore. So, why do we
> think it should be different today ? Newsflash !
> It was never about the railroad, even way back
> when. It was about moving the dirt around. Still
> is.
In that case, the mining company should have paid to have the railroad relocated around their site, not truncated. Perhaps they did and the CC&V chose to do what was done in trade for some $$$. Not enough info here to make a judgement.
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> If this were 1885 or 1902, no one would begin to
> think that preserving an old ROW overruled the
> mining. Tracks got moved all the time to
> facilitate getting at the ore. So, why do we
> think it should be different today ? Newsflash !
> It was never about the railroad, even way back
> when. It was about moving the dirt around. Still
> is.
In that case, the mining company should have paid to have the railroad relocated around their site, not truncated. Perhaps they did and the CC&V chose to do what was done in trade for some $$$. Not enough info here to make a judgement.
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