Re: SECRET N G RR Did not happen

The case is closed as didn't happen here, but there are many cases when a common carrier line is abandoned and then later used by additional train that were not just the scrap trains. I had this when TM at Taunton, MA on the Dighton Branch when it was abandoned account of bad track and no business. Then just before we tore up the rails, a power company building a new generating plant at Dighton, cried they had new generator enroute and could not move them by highway from Taunton. $500 to a contractor got the track back in service and we then moved three trains with 32-wheel cars down the line with 1.5 million pounds of new generators on each trip. I was always amazed the value of steel rails and how little reason it took to abandoned a line.
The abandoned lines are then run upon as if they were private industry tracks or sidings. New sidetrack agreements are usually signed.
This once happened on the NG C&S out of Denver when a rancher had to move his cattle long after abandonment but before the line was torn up. The C&S ran up with mty cattle cars and made the move.
The question of the case on the Chili line was not for freight but was for workers getting to the job by wartime emergency demands.