Re: 5 Miles South Of Ridgway Never Looked Better!

Herb Kelsey Wrote:
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> By the time of this photo they were running "East"
> and "West" in concert with the ICC's standards.
> East was towards Ridgway and West was away from
> Ridgway - towards Durango. So here we have
> Westward Train 371 in the hole at Hagen (no 's')
> for Eastward Train 372.
>
> In this stretch of the railroad East and West make
> sense. But in and out of Durango ordinal and
> timetable directions were totally backwards.
> North-South was always a better reference for the
> RGS but the Gummint knew better.

The RR I retired from is North-South. On top of that it is mileposted South to North! I had a heck of a time getting used to that. JP