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Mike Trent

November 22, 2006 07:25PM

480,
At the end of operations, and after cars identified and marked for the C&TS were cut out of the herd, many, many narrow gauge cars were taken down the line a few miles to Estrella, where they were unceremoniously burned. When all the wood was burned away, a bulldozers came in and pushed all the metal parts into a pile where they were then loaded onto trucks and hauled off for scrap. This was right off the right of way, and a shocking sight for anyone who wished more of this stuff to be preserved.

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Scraping in Alamosa LINK	480	November 22, 2006 09:26AM
Re: Scraping in Alamosa	Casey Akin aka: kitBASHer	November 22, 2006 09:47AM
Re: Scraping in Alamosa LINK	Fritz Klinke	November 22, 2006 10:04AM
Re: Scraping in Alamosa	Ted Miles	November 22, 2006 11:00AM
Re: Scrapping in Alamosa	Herb Kelsey	November 22, 2006 11:06AM
Re: Scraping in Alamosa	John Cole	November 22, 2006 11:16AM
Estrella, Boneyard of the Narrow Gauge	Mike Trent	November 22, 2006 07:25PM
Re: Estrella, Boneyard of the Narrow Gauge	480	November 22, 2006 08:44PM
Re: Estrella, Boneyard of the Narrow Gauge	Chile John	November 23, 2006 08:04AM
Re: Estrella, Boneyard of the Narrow Gauge	Bill M.	November 22, 2006 11:54PM
Re: Estrella, Boneyard of the Narrow Gauge	PRSL	November 23, 2006 08:12AM
Re: Estrella, Boneyard of the Narrow Gauge	Chile John	November 23, 2006 09:24AM
Re: Estrella, Boneyard of the Narrow Gauge	Jerry Day	November 23, 2006 08:17AM

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