Re: Seaching for existing answers . . .

tomc Wrote:
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> Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> > > Was the coal for this location coming off the
> NG?
> >
> > Mostly from Monero, IIRC, and probably also
> > from Hesperus until the demise of the RGS.
>
> Hesperus is out after the depot burned as the spur
> track to the mines had the new depot replacement
> spotted on it.

> It could have come from the Triangle Mine at
> Franklin Jct along with Monero.
>
> Tom C.

Hesperus (actually it was probably King Coal by then) had a truck load out in Durango north of the Graden Flour Mill they shipped coal out of there into the 1960's. At one time they shipped coal to the power plant in Alamosa.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/09/2018 09:47AM by Earl.