In a message dated 2/21/04 10:54:55 AM, pepperkay@aol.com writes:
>Was there anyplace in the CB&Q system that interchanges were
>
>performed with the Santa Fe ?
Don't forget Trinidad, Colorado, where the C&S had a convoluted horseshoe
route into and out of the Purgatoire River valley later replaced with a flyover
bypassing the town. The steep, slithering C&S line from the north remains as
an interchange between the two now-BNSF lines.
There was also a 17-mile stretch of ATSF trackage rights on the C&S between
Clayton and Mt. Dora in northeastern New Mexico connecting to the ATSF Colmor
Cutoff, a failed attempt to build a low-grade line around Raton Pass. The ATSF
branch from Mt. Dora to Farley operated through the 1930s with the rails
pulled up in/after 1942 during the World War Two scramble for scrap steel.
Bill
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