In a message dated 8/13/02 10:12:44 AM Central Daylight Time,
railsunl@f... writes:
> The Q would have moved
> all of that hill to provide a double track in that area, and this would
> have taken many more months and of course a great deal more money. Could
> the Q have afforded such a huge undertaking in 1965?
>
Ted -
The area Russ was referring to was originally double track ABS; it should
have been replaced in kind in order to avoid the bottlenecks single track CTC
causes. I spent the summer of 1965 at East Winona, WI as a relief operator
while the "rebuild" was going on.
Bob Campbell
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