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Dave Dye

July 21, 2006 10:06PM

I still have the RGHS news letter that the story was in. It was titled "Back Filling with Locomotives" and is quite the tale. The story goes that they were going to fill it with 5 124' long L-131s. After further research they only needed to cover 197 feet to avoid damage to the federal land above. The railroad owned 120 feet of land from each portal which could be back filled/blasted. So the new calculation was one C-48 and one L-131. The tale specifies 1136 and 3600 as the lucky subjects.
In a sidebar it goes on with a story about the successor the SP. Floods and mud slides buried the facilities and equipment in the Roseville yards near Sacramento. Rather than dig everything out they just built new on top. If you knew the right manhole cover you could still gain access to the buried engine shop with intact engines. What a story!

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Re: lost locomotive lore	stuart olson	July 20, 2006 05:09PM
Re: lost locomotive lore	WilliamDiehl	July 21, 2006 02:12AM
Home of the Whopper	El Coke	July 21, 2006 06:50AM
Re: Home of the Whopper	Tim Schreiner	July 21, 2006 07:34AM
Re: lost locomotive lore	Dave Dye	July 21, 2006 10:06PM
Re: lost locomotive Mud Lake M&StL	Ron Keagle	July 21, 2006 10:23AM
Re: lost stuff lore	El Skonk	July 20, 2006 03:54PM
Re: lost locomotive lore/found but lost crew?	John	July 20, 2006 04:12PM
Re: lost locomotive lore/found but lost crew?	Charles McMillan	July 21, 2006 12:28PM
Re: lost locomotive lore/found but lost crew? LINK	Mike Stillwell	July 21, 2006 01:52PM
Lost locos in Ohio	Donald Foster	July 21, 2006 03:24PM
Grandpa's Lost locos	El Coke	July 21, 2006 05:29PM
Re: Grandpa's Lost locos	David Peterson	July 21, 2006 06:45PM
An example of how these tales grow	El Coke	July 21, 2006 09:54PM
Re: An example of how these tales grow	Chile John	July 22, 2006 08:58AM
Treasury Mountain	El Coke	July 22, 2006 04:37PM
Re: Treasury Mountain	Dave Dye	July 22, 2006 07:49PM
Re: Grandpa's Lost locos LINK	Dick Hague	July 23, 2006 07:04PM
Re: Lost locos in Ohio	Greg Scholl	July 22, 2006 09:21AM
Lost locomotives- Documented finds	El Coke	July 21, 2006 09:46PM
LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Ron Keagle	July 25, 2006 09:54AM
Georgia Pacific #9	El Coke	July 25, 2006 11:22AM
Re: Georgia Pacific #9	Steve Thompson	July 25, 2006 11:37AM
Re: Georgia Pacific #9	Mike Stillwell	July 25, 2006 02:41PM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Wade	July 25, 2006 05:17PM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Ron Keagle	July 25, 2006 06:11PM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Wade	July 25, 2006 09:16PM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	stuart olson	July 25, 2006 09:30PM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Dave Dye	July 25, 2006 09:55PM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Charles McMillan	July 25, 2006 10:23PM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Ron Keagle	July 26, 2006 07:04AM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Ron Keagle	July 26, 2006 11:27AM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Wade	July 26, 2006 03:39PM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	Wade	July 26, 2006 03:44PM
Maine's Northern Woods Locomotives	James C Patten	July 26, 2006 08:06AM
Re: Maine's Northern Woods Locomotives	John McNamara	July 26, 2006 08:51AM
Re: Maine's Northern Woods Locomotives	stuart olson	July 26, 2006 10:41AM
Re: Maine's Northern Woods Locomotives	John McNamara	July 26, 2006 11:29AM
Re: LOCOMOTIVES LOST, & ABANDONED	SVCartoad	July 26, 2006 03:54PM
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