February 25, 2015 07:55AM
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NGJunkie Wrote:
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> Chris Webster Wrote:
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> > In John's photo, to the left of the diamond
> > crossing of the balloon loop: it looks to me
> like
> > there was some grading done there, to provide a
> > connection to the balloon loop. Was there ever
> a
> > connection there?
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> Wasnt that the location of the track that
> connected to the RGS. The bridge is visable in the
> background.
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> Jared
The bridge at the far left of JBW's first pic is the highway bridge. The railroad bridge that was also the RGS connection would have been right next to it, but it was taken out in April '68 when the old turning loop was taken out. If you look at the color aerial view you can see the loop track dead ending at the fill for the new loop, then coming out from under the fill alongside the river. This part might actually be the RGS lead with the up loop higher and the grade obscured. I'm not sure where the actual switch was located in there.
The Grande owned all the track across the river to some distance west of the Animas River. This was their track to access the smelter and a bank of coke ovens. I believe the RGS started a couple of hundred feet west of the Animas River.
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