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Festus

November 03, 2006 01:57PM

I think your rendition of history is extremely slanted. It is my understanding that Judge McCarthy stopped the raping of the Rio Grande by external interests and worked to rebuild it into a viable railroad. As much as we all like steam locomotives, they were rapidly becoming financial liabilities in light of more economical diesel power. The Rio Grande had to modernize or die at that point. The name calling is inappropriate.

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