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Tom Moungovan

December 18, 2015 12:37PM

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Lance Wrote:
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> A flat RR to the canyon or 4% to 10.000 ' behind
> double headed coal fired steam, not a difficult
> choice for me.

Lance, have you ever ridden the GCR? Most of the rr is on grade and a lot of that is at 40mph. The rr profile is like a Vee with the lowest part being in Miller Wash near Mile 36 or so then it's nearly all uphill into the Canyon with 6 miles of 3% on the old Apex Grade.

Not a flat railroad at all. FWIW, I worked there with Robby in '99 and am still pretty familiar with what it offers.

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Re: Post from Robby Peartree over at RYPN	Lance	December 18, 2015 09:54AM
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