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Fritz Klinke

September 25, 2021 09:19AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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The motivating need to get rid of the North yard was money. The City of Durango leased much of that land and it was the Harpers need to cash it out. As I recall, they got around a million dollars through several transactions. And they had no real interest in keeping the equipment. It was a passenger operation and aside from the cars needed for wrecker service and occasional work trains, they had a hard time maintaining both cabooses. They were carrying a huge debt load and one way to stay afloat was to sell assets that were not essential.

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Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	superfleet	September 23, 2021 08:38PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	Joe Weigman	September 24, 2021 09:48AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	Chris Webster	September 24, 2021 10:16AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	Earl	September 24, 2021 01:01PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	DanS	September 24, 2021 07:34PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	jim pallow	September 24, 2021 04:23PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	jim pallow	September 24, 2021 04:25PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	jgp1843	September 24, 2021 09:41PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	Fritz Klinke	September 25, 2021 09:19AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	gregcoit	September 26, 2021 08:03AM
Perverse incentives	hank	September 26, 2021 08:36AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	John West	September 26, 2021 03:12PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	laxriter	September 25, 2021 09:23AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	Joe Weigman	September 25, 2021 10:20AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	ROW Explorer	September 25, 2021 11:07AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	superfleet	September 25, 2021 07:52PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	Grant Houston	September 25, 2021 09:40PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	Mark Valerius	October 01, 2021 08:22AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	hank	October 01, 2021 09:38AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	nickgully	October 01, 2021 10:16AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	kcsivils	October 01, 2021 11:34AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	Donald Foster	October 01, 2021 03:05PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	Sharrod	October 01, 2021 04:09PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	Russo Loco	October 01, 2021 07:20PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	Sharrod	October 02, 2021 02:55PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	Johnson Barr	October 02, 2021 08:18PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	hank	October 03, 2021 07:43AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	Fritz Klinke	October 03, 2021 09:41AM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back - now and then shots of cars	Grant Houston	October 04, 2021 06:47PM
Re: Durango "north yard" sale a few years back	rdamurphy	September 28, 2021 07:11PM

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