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Mike Stillwell

November 29, 2004 02:32PM

Dan,
The Dolores track is about 50 feet west of where the ROW lies, under CO 144. The ideal plans, are to lay rail out of Dolores, south towards Mancos. From what I have seen, after crossing the river, the track would be on original ROW. The portion in town is completely covered by modern roads. The Society had previously laid a small tangent (100 feet?) on authentic ROW at Millwood to mark the 100 year of the completion of the RGS, but this was taken up to use for the new track plans.
The Ridgway RR Museum has laid track at the fairgrounds, but I'm fairly sure it is not on RGS ROW. Maybe they have plans to. I hope they do before it is built over and lost forever.
Mike Stillwell

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Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	Dan Decker	November 29, 2004 11:51AM
Re: Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	Mike Stillwell	November 29, 2004 02:32PM
Re: Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	Mike Stillwell	November 29, 2004 02:35PM
Re: Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	Herb Kelsey	December 07, 2004 03:56PM
Re: Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	Mike Trent	November 29, 2004 02:46PM
Re: Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	Dan Robirds	November 29, 2004 03:13PM
Re: Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	cdaspit	November 29, 2004 04:35PM
Re: Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	Tony Kassin	November 29, 2004 06:54PM
Re: Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	PRSL	November 29, 2004 09:21PM
Re: Any remnants of the RGS track anywhere?	Philip Walters	November 29, 2004 09:37PM
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