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Re: Abandonments saved the Silverton?

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rehunn

December 16, 2014 03:46PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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It's more involved than that. The oil boom saved the whole thing, the
postwar travel helped the tourist industry and in the end the few trains
that ran in the sixties kept crews around to run the Silverton. Without
the freight business the Rio Grande would have dumped/torn up/sold/etc
the Silverton much earlier.

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Abandonments saved the Silverton?	hank	December 16, 2014 02:59PM
Re: Abandonments saved the Silverton?	rehunn	December 16, 2014 03:46PM
Re: Abandonments saved the Silverton?	nickgully	December 16, 2014 03:46PM
Re: Abandonments saved the Silverton?	Tomstp	December 16, 2014 03:56PM
Re: Abandonments saved the Silverton?	John Bush	December 16, 2014 07:22PM

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