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CGW grade west from Winona?
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<FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Boyd, </SPAN></o:p></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I am not very familiar with how the CGW passed through that area, but I know they absorbed the Winona & Southwestern Railroad.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is quite a bit of that old W&SW roadbed still intact in what remains rather wild country.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are many cuts and fills, with some cuts through solid rock.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is private property, but if you could get permission, it would be interesting to explore it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The site of the two Bear Creek Trestles is fairly intact (at least it was ten years ago.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Check out the winter 2000, Volume 27, Number 1 issue of North Western Lines for an extensive article on the W&SW.</SPAN></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
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