qutlx1@a... wrote:
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> Is there anything natural known to man harder than frozen earth or water? If
> you've read Stephen Ambrose recent work "Nothing Like it in the World" you
> are familiar with how the U.P. laid rails on the frozen Missouri to operate
> trains over.
>
In Mac Poor's book "Denver, South Park and Pacific" is a tale. In February
1895 Joe Plunkett left Como, Co. on train 93 in a snow storm, as they neared
Arthurs they spotted a haystack in front of them so they stoped and
investigated, at first thinking some fool had put a haystack on the right of
way. They discovered they had left the rail and run out across the frozen and
snowcovered ground out into a meadow. They put in a call to Como for an engine
to pull them back to the rails. But they were so far off the track they had to
send to Denver for a cable long enough to reach them.
Ken Martin
DSP&P became part of C&S which the Q bought.
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