Re: Anyone Know?
| April 14, 2015 11:25AM |
Earl Wrote:
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> The rail got upgraded to 40lb pretty quick to
> allow Class 70 engines to run there (there was a
> Class 70 named "Cumbres"!).
There was a Class 56 named "Music Pass" but AFAIK D&RG never built track there! Not to mention a Class 70 named "Green River" which I sincerly doubt ever worked West of Grand Jct.
Seriously tho, ISTR that the Antonito - Durango line was upgraded to 40 lb in the mid 1880's, after the Lovejoy debacle and before the big rush to Std Gauge a line to Grand Jct. I suspect some 30# may have remained in sidings until the 1920's rebuild.
> Then in WWI, they
> must have put some heavier rail down to
> accommodate K27's.
I think this was 65#, probably reused from std ga lines going to #85, and occurred by 1913. Only Cumbres-Chama tho.
> In 1922 the put down 70 lb.
> across the whole system. Chama to east of Osier
> was relaid in 85# in 1938 or so.
I've always assumed that 85# was being reused as the std ga was upgraded. I don't know of D&RG using much 70# (other than this and some laid in the same era on the East side of Marshall) so that might have been new or, OTOH, might it have come from ex-RGW trackage? Has anybody checked the web of the 85# or 70# rail for dates when it was rolled?
On a NNG note I remember, when C&NW rebuilt it's line down to Death Moans that went near my house as a kid (mid-70's) being impressed by the the rail being removed being from the 1920's. Irony: they rebuilt the whole line, then abandoned most of it in the 80's when they bought the CRI&P "spine line".
hank
hank
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> The rail got upgraded to 40lb pretty quick to
> allow Class 70 engines to run there (there was a
> Class 70 named "Cumbres"!).
There was a Class 56 named "Music Pass" but AFAIK D&RG never built track there! Not to mention a Class 70 named "Green River" which I sincerly doubt ever worked West of Grand Jct.
Seriously tho, ISTR that the Antonito - Durango line was upgraded to 40 lb in the mid 1880's, after the Lovejoy debacle and before the big rush to Std Gauge a line to Grand Jct. I suspect some 30# may have remained in sidings until the 1920's rebuild.
> Then in WWI, they
> must have put some heavier rail down to
> accommodate K27's.
I think this was 65#, probably reused from std ga lines going to #85, and occurred by 1913. Only Cumbres-Chama tho.
> In 1922 the put down 70 lb.
> across the whole system. Chama to east of Osier
> was relaid in 85# in 1938 or so.
I've always assumed that 85# was being reused as the std ga was upgraded. I don't know of D&RG using much 70# (other than this and some laid in the same era on the East side of Marshall) so that might have been new or, OTOH, might it have come from ex-RGW trackage? Has anybody checked the web of the 85# or 70# rail for dates when it was rolled?
On a NNG note I remember, when C&NW rebuilt it's line down to Death Moans that went near my house as a kid (mid-70's) being impressed by the the rail being removed being from the 1920's. Irony: they rebuilt the whole line, then abandoned most of it in the 80's when they bought the CRI&P "spine line".
hank
hank
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