Re: C&TSRR 484 & 488 Double Header above The Gash . . .
| January 27, 2022 01:46PM |
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Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> (Roger's) video graphically confirms my long-held
> view that the new highway should have followed
> the old road on the east side of the valley instead
> of cutting away on Windy Point . . .
I wholeheartedly Second, Third and Fourth that motion, Olaf -
The route was undoubtedly chosen to minimize snow-fighting efforts on the new highway (see [ngdiscussion.net]), and with the assumption that the railroad would be gone by the time the road was paved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> (Roger's) video graphically confirms my long-held
> view that the new highway should have followed
> the old road on the east side of the valley instead
> of cutting away on Windy Point . . .
I wholeheartedly Second, Third and Fourth that motion, Olaf -
The route was undoubtedly chosen to minimize snow-fighting efforts on the new highway (see [ngdiscussion.net]), and with the assumption that the railroad would be gone by the time the road was paved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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