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Doug vV

February 02, 2001 07:22PM

If you were living in the mid 1930's, would you have bet money if someone would have said that by the turn of the century, the D&RGW would have:
1) gotten a Kansas City Gateway (trackage rights due to (as I recall) UP/SLSF/C&NW merger,
2) bought Southern Pacific RR,
3) outlived the Pennsy (& the NYC for that matter) and
4) been sought after by UP after having renamed itself to SP?
I think most would have bet on either the UP, NYC, SP, or PRR and not the D&RGW. After all, PRR had spent millions of dollars to put in a 140 mile Low Grade line from Harrisburg (Enola) to Trenton to lower the eastbound ruling grade from 0.7% to 0.3%!!!
D&RGW was still fighting the 4% and C&S had given up.
RGS still fought on also. If D&RGW had abandoned the narrow gauge when C&S gave up, The Galloping Goose flock might not have happened or might not have been as big. AND I LOVE THEM GEESE!!!

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Re: Perlman's Legacy.	Chris Callaway	February 03, 2001 07:04AM
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Re: Perlman's Legacy.	Emeril	February 08, 2001 10:09PM
Re: Perlman's Legacy.	Chris Callaway	February 04, 2001 07:23AM
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Re: Perlman's Legacy.	Thom Lyons	February 06, 2001 04:54PM
Re: Perlman's Legacy.	Earl Knoob	February 07, 2001 08:05AM
Re: Perlman's Legacy.	Thom Lyons	February 07, 2001 04:11PM
Re: Perlman's Legacy.	Earl	February 07, 2001 05:47PM
Re: Perlman's Legacy.	Doug vV	February 08, 2001 09:18PM
Re: Perlman's Legacy.	Don Sharer	February 09, 2001 09:17AM
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Re: Perlman's Legacy.	El-VB	February 07, 2001 03:13PM

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