December 30, 2020 01:55PM
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Meat was delivered to locations along both the RGS and DRGW until trucking took over the loads. Loaded at Alamosa from standard guage cars coming from Denver stockyards. Bulk beef cuts hanging in the cars.
Orchards around Cortez-Mancos-Dolores area provided outbound loads.
During the 1950 oil rush( the pipe trains), the 40 foot cars were used to haul drilling mud into Farmington during the colder months when the Cumbres pass was still open. No heaters, just used the insulation in the cars. Kept the 40 footers going long after trucking took over the perishable business.
Don
There is an effort to map the historic orchard locations here [
montezumaorchard.org] and this is a map of the effort (open the full map to show the area including Cortez-Mancos-Dolores)
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/30/2020 01:57PM by DonN.
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