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Earl

May 21, 2015 01:05PM

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The common thing was to always have a pair of SG/NG idlers in Antonito so that any eastbound train coming off Cumbres, could handle SG cars to ALA. If an eastbound grabbed the idlers and moved some SG cars north, the next train out of ALA would have a pair of idlers in the train - even if there were no SG cars to move south. Usually there was enough SG traffic toward Antonito to have a few SG cars in every train.

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San Luis Valley operations	jim pallow	May 19, 2015 06:56PM
Coupler cars?	hank	May 20, 2015 09:38AM
Re: Coupler cars?	rehunn	May 20, 2015 10:00AM
Re: Coupler cars?	John West	May 20, 2015 10:29AM
Re: Coupler cars?	davegrandt	May 20, 2015 11:19AM
Re: Coupler cars?	Rex Beistle	May 20, 2015 02:08PM
Re: "Coupler Cars" all "Idlers" now ...	Johnson Barr	May 21, 2015 06:24PM
Re: "Coupler Cars" all "Idlers" now ...	dougvv	May 21, 2015 09:54PM
Re: "Coupler Cars" all "Idlers" now ...	philip.marshall	May 21, 2015 10:46PM
Re: San Luis Valley operations	rehunn	May 20, 2015 12:18PM
Re: San Luis Valley operations	dougvv	May 20, 2015 12:33PM
Re: San Luis Valley operations	nickgully	May 20, 2015 12:43PM
Re: San Luis Valley operations	rehunn	May 20, 2015 01:12PM
Re: San Luis Valley operations	Earl	May 21, 2015 01:05PM
Re: San Luis Valley operations	jim pallow	May 21, 2015 05:40PM

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