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Fritz Klinke

October 29, 2006 11:14AM

Carbon Junction was not all that big, and with empties from Farmington and loads coming in from Alamosa, I imagine keeping all that sorted out could get complicated as there was also Durango and Silverton freight. Most folks don't know that when Standard Uranium was reopening the American Tunnel in Gladstone that all their incoming freight came to Silverton by rail--several hundred car loads in the 1957-59 period.
Here is a Roger Cook photo taken in 1967, I believe, of Carbon Junction and the 498 making up a train of empties.
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480 in Silverton today	Fritz Klinke	October 28, 2006 10:13PM
Re: 480 in Silverton today	Charlie McCandless	October 29, 2006 07:32AM
Re: 480 in Silverton today	Fritz Klinke	October 29, 2006 09:53AM
Re: 480 in Silverton today	Greg Scholl	October 29, 2006 09:57AM
Re: 480 in Silverton today	Charlie McCandless	October 29, 2006 10:29AM
Re: 480 in Silverton today	Fritz Klinke	October 29, 2006 11:14AM
Re: 480 in Silverton today	Matt Hutson	October 29, 2006 09:06AM

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