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Douglas van Veelen

June 03, 2000 03:46PM

The Hartwell interchanged originally with the 50 mile Elberton Air Line (also 3-foot gauge) between Elberton and Taccoa on SRR. After EAL was taken over by SRR (I think it was actually CofG), it was extended for a back door entry into Augusta.
I rode in the SW1200's cab once when I went up to ride the ex-Reader 2-6-2 and the crew gave us a cab ride switching freight cars instead. The SW1200 was ex-NYC.
The Hartwell had a "branch" that went all the way to Hartwell Dam during construction. They extended the main.
Contact me back channel if you want to get together and "be narrow minded".
Doug.

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less well known narrow gauge railroads.	Douglas van Veelen	June 03, 2000 06:35AM
Re: less well known narrow gauge railroads.	Mike Mahoney	June 03, 2000 03:28PM
Re: less well known narrow gauge railroads.	Mike Mahoney	June 03, 2000 03:35PM
Re: less well known narrow gauge railroads.	Douglas van Veelen	June 03, 2000 03:46PM
Re: less well known narrow gauge railroads.	Doug vV	June 03, 2000 03:50PM
Re: less well known narrow gauge railroads.	Mike Mahoney	June 03, 2000 07:33PM
Re: less well known narrow gauge railroads.	Doug vV	June 03, 2000 10:53PM
Re: less well known narrow gauge railroads.	G. W. Laepple	June 04, 2000 01:01PM
Wishing and Hartwell RR	Doug vV	June 04, 2000 01:25PM
Glover Locos	O. Anderson	June 05, 2000 10:45AM
Re: Glover Locos	Doug vV	June 05, 2000 12:12PM
Re: Glover Locos	Roy Keeley	June 07, 2000 10:05AM
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Re: less well known narrow gauge railroads.	Glenn Christensen	June 04, 2000 02:14PM

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