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Date: 07/20/06 22:32
D&RGW at Windy Point Aug. 1968
Author: drew1946

Another view of the same train as it passes Windy Point just West of the Cumbres Summit. August 28, 1968. K36 #484 can be seen pushing on the rear, the small depot at Cumbres is to my back.

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Date: 07/21/06 06:40
Re: D&RGW at Windy Point Aug. 1968
Author: Waybiller

What would have been moving in those boxcars then? I know about the pipe to Farmington, but what would have been generating boxcar traffic in '68, and what were the origin and destinations?

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Date: 07/21/06 11:06
Re: D&RGW at Windy Point Aug. 1968
Author: drgwAZ1986

IIRC...Durango was generating lumber traffic that was loaded into the boxcars...

I found this on John West's Page...from 1967
http://home.att.net/~jbardinwest/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-825948.html

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Date: 07/21/06 11:21
Re: D&RGW at Windy Point Aug. 1968
Author: drew1946

On west bound trains, the boxcars were loaded with some kind of bagged drilling mud for EPNG in Farminton.

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