dougvv Wrote:
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> Hi,
> The agreement was due to BOTH the AT&SF taking
> Raton and the D&RGW being leased to the AT&SF
> (hanging bridge is an AT&SF construction). I think
> the third party was the CB&Q.
No, it was UP.
> AT&SF was not allowed to build west of the front
> range and the D&RG was not allowed to build south
> for 10 years.
Of course AT&SF broke the agreement in 1886-87 by building their line from Pueblo to Denver. UP broke it, in spirit at least, in November of 1880 by buying DSP&P.
The loss of the Raton route is a bit over-played, IMO. D&RG had been looking from the beginning at both the Raton route and the route via Alamosa. Both show up in material from 1870-71. Comparing the two I expect the route via Alamosa would have made a better Denver-El Paso routing with Raton, if the D&RG had got it, winding up as mostly a coal mine branch.
hank