Re: Bulk Freight on the C&TS investment opportunity . . . 
| July 01, 2022 06:01PM |
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C.P.Huntington Wrote:
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> If I have a carload or two worth of freight
> in Antonito can I pay the railroad to have
> it hauled to Chama or any other point on
> the line?
Kelly Anderson Wrote:
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> So you would bring truckloads of freight to
> Antonito, pay the RR to charter two box cars,
> load your freight into the box cars, drive the
> trucks to Chama, wait for the train to arrive,
> load your freight back into the trucks, and
> continue on to your destination . . .
>
> Sounds eminently practical, not to mention
> inexpensive. I think it would be a great exer-
> cise in demonstrating why narrow gauge rail-
> roads disappeared.
Don't be a kill-joy, Kelly -
You'll be discouraging Rich Muth from joining me in taking advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Just think of the economic benefit to Archuleta & Conejos Counties in Colorado and Rio Arriba County in New Mexico if, instead of hauling those tons and tons of grain over La Veta Pass to Walsenburg and then all the way to the Coors brewery in Golden, a sizeable portion of it could be diverted to Antonito, hauled to Chama on the C&TS for trucks to deliver to the GRAMPS brewery in Chromo, and then the resultant Chromo Crude Triple Chocolate Stout shipped back to the bottling plant in Alamosa in The Friends tank cars, half of which already bear the appropriate name and only need stainless steel or glass linings like they had when Lafayette Hughes was shipping milk to Alamosa's Cloverleaf Ice Cream factory in the mid-Thirties — back before oil was discovered in the meadows of his dairy farm. See [ngdiscussion.net] for further information.
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2022 08:41PM by Johnson Barr.
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> If I have a carload or two worth of freight
> in Antonito can I pay the railroad to have
> it hauled to Chama or any other point on
> the line?
Kelly Anderson Wrote:
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> So you would bring truckloads of freight to
> Antonito, pay the RR to charter two box cars,
> load your freight into the box cars, drive the
> trucks to Chama, wait for the train to arrive,
> load your freight back into the trucks, and
> continue on to your destination . . .
>
> Sounds eminently practical, not to mention
> inexpensive. I think it would be a great exer-
> cise in demonstrating why narrow gauge rail-
> roads disappeared.
Don't be a kill-joy, Kelly -
You'll be discouraging Rich Muth from joining me in taking advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Just think of the economic benefit to Archuleta & Conejos Counties in Colorado and Rio Arriba County in New Mexico if, instead of hauling those tons and tons of grain over La Veta Pass to Walsenburg and then all the way to the Coors brewery in Golden, a sizeable portion of it could be diverted to Antonito, hauled to Chama on the C&TS for trucks to deliver to the GRAMPS brewery in Chromo, and then the resultant Chromo Crude Triple Chocolate Stout shipped back to the bottling plant in Alamosa in The Friends tank cars, half of which already bear the appropriate name and only need stainless steel or glass linings like they had when Lafayette Hughes was shipping milk to Alamosa's Cloverleaf Ice Cream factory in the mid-Thirties — back before oil was discovered in the meadows of his dairy farm. See [ngdiscussion.net] for further information.
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
"Not All Who Have Cell-Phones Do Twitter *
"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think . . . "
* Only TWITS Twitter!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2022 08:41PM by Johnson Barr.
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