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William Reed

May 20, 2007 01:53PM

Erik,
The main ore hauled down from Monarch was limestone which went to the big CF&I steel factory in Pueblo. In the narrow gauge days the cars would transfer loads to std gauge gons via the barrel a large contraption which turned the ng gons upside down to empty them this was in Salida. In 1956 the line was standard gauged and remained in service up until 1983. I still remember seeing a few trains on Monarch as a small boy in the early 80's. Would have made a nice excursion line, but the grade are a firm 4.5%. Hope this helps answer your question.
William
aka drgwk37

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Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Tim	May 17, 2007 07:17AM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye PIC	Dave Dye	May 17, 2007 07:22PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Tim	May 18, 2007 07:29AM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye PIC	Dave Dye	May 17, 2007 07:29PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Brian Norden	May 17, 2007 07:43PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Casey Akin	May 17, 2007 08:03PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Erik Priess	May 18, 2007 08:01AM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Dave Dye	May 17, 2007 08:15PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye NM	Charlie McCandless	May 17, 2007 09:11PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Charlie McCandless	May 17, 2007 09:12PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Festus	May 18, 2007 12:19AM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Tim	May 18, 2007 07:23AM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Norm Acker	May 18, 2007 12:14PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Dave Dye	May 18, 2007 06:47PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Erik Priess	May 20, 2007 01:09PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Dave Dye	May 20, 2007 01:46PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	William Reed	May 20, 2007 01:53PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Jerry Day	May 20, 2007 06:15PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	William Reed	May 21, 2007 06:27AM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Jerry Day	May 21, 2007 04:53PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	William Reed	May 21, 2007 06:48PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye PIC	Larry	May 21, 2007 07:45PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Philip H. Walters	May 22, 2007 09:56PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Larry	May 22, 2007 10:08PM
Re: Garfield Switchback--for David Dye	Jerry Day	May 21, 2007 10:16PM
Re: Garfield Switchback	Dave Dye	May 21, 2007 10:27PM
Re: Garfield Switchback	Chuck Dressel	May 22, 2007 06:15AM
Re: Garfield Switchback PIC	Larry	May 22, 2007 10:02AM

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