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Earl

May 21, 2018 03:02PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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If the present C&TS and D&S were standard gauge, they would have been dieselized by 1956, and no one would care one way or the other. The Silverton Branch would have been torn up by 1955. The rest might have survived longer, but I'm sure it would have been torn up by the early 1970's.

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50 Years Later	Jerry474	May 19, 2018 08:52PM
Re: 50 Years Later	hsuthe	May 20, 2018 06:41PM
Re: 50 Years Later	Greg Scholl	May 21, 2018 11:42AM
Re: 50 Years Later	Jerry474	May 21, 2018 01:38PM
Re: 50 Years Later	Greg Scholl	May 21, 2018 02:39PM
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Re: 50 Years Later	Greg Scholl	May 21, 2018 07:56PM
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Re: 50 Years Later	Marowicz	May 23, 2018 12:51AM
Re: 50 Years Later	Popeye8762	May 23, 2018 05:42AM
Re: 50 Years Later	Jerry474	May 23, 2018 08:36AM
Re: 50 Years Later	Mark Valerius	May 23, 2018 09:07AM
Re: 50 Years Later	Greg Scholl	May 23, 2018 12:22PM
Re: 50 Years Later	Mark Valerius	May 24, 2018 07:36AM
Re: 50 Years Later	Prowordsmith	May 23, 2018 08:40AM
Re: 50 Years Later	drgwk37	May 20, 2018 06:55PM
Re: 50 Years Later	Russo Loco	May 20, 2018 09:55PM
Re: 50 Years Later	drgwk37	May 21, 2018 07:43PM
Re: 50 Years Later	Earl	May 21, 2018 03:02PM
Re: 50 Years Later	Greg Scholl	May 22, 2018 08:36AM
Re: 50 Years Later	MSRRKevin	May 21, 2018 03:52PM

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