Re: Peak traffic on the NGDF . . .

rehunn Wrote:
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> I would have thought that 1956-60 era would have
> been higher in actual tonnage due to the pipe
> boom. You look at the system wide ranking of
> Aztec and Farmington in terms of business and
> I'm not sure the earlier era would match.

IIRC, per one of Dorman's books, Aztec was the busiest depot on the entire D&RGW at one time. There was a LOT of oilfield equipment and pipe coming in, and plenty of empties going out - see Earl's post below.

> Again, your results may vary.  I just checked
> my post count and I'm about a third of Russ.


Hey, I'm retiarded -

With nothing better to do than read nearly every post, and I butt in every chance I get mainly to keep the monitors on their toes.*

Roger was way ahead of me 'til a couple of years ago, but he's been so busy playing with his drone and chasing wildlife that I finally caught up.  And your post count is way more than 1/3 of mine - 4003 vs 9805 is almost 41%, actually.    

- Roosso (El Abuelo) Loco

* If you type "N I M B Y" without the spaces, the NGDF software will substitute "@#$%&", making the JéBêWèX's job way too easy, so I feel compelled to challenge him once in a while.  But IIRC I've only been put on 'time out' just once – when I joined Johnny Coal in recommending that a certain incompetent employee be dismissed.  The RR later followed our advice . . .



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/06/2017 02:26PM by Russo Loco.