Re: Tracing the Chili Line

The way to explore the Chili line to to take the valuation print and reduce them on a copier on tranparency to the exact scale of the aerial photos of the terraserver.com and you can exactly see where the line went i today world. The real challenge is to explore and map the lines which did not get into valuation maps, such as the three spurs of R. W. Stewart & Company. I once walked the south and north spur, but never had information to look at the one west of Tres Piedras. I had always questioned the way Mr. Dorman drew it on his map on page 3 of Chili line book and asked him for a reference to show so much trackage. He did not identify any source and may have drawn it free hand. It looked longer than La Madera branch but it need ground search or location of an old map to prove it did go anywhere west of T.P. This was the oldest private logging line off of the D&RG and supplied them construction ties for new lines. Maps have been printed in older Chili line histories showing the engine house at Tres Piedras.
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