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News Wire: Tennessee Pass line sees freight traffic — for one day

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 9:41 AM

CANON CITY, Colo. — A piece of Rio Grande’s long-dormant Tennessee Pass route saw freight traffic on it again briefly Monday. A pair of BNSF Railway units pulled a train of some 130-plus stored coal hoppers from Spikebuck, Colo., about ...

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Posted by zardoz on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 9:49 AM

Anyone here know what the ruling grade is on the west side of the pass? I understand that it is around 3% on the east side.

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, February 27, 2019 3:40 AM

3% either side of Pando (uncompensated)....Spikebuck is well east of there (100 miles), just out of the west side of the Gorge where RRRR/RGCX run to the west end of Parkdale, barely 3 miles into the mothballed territory.

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Posted by zardoz on Friday, March 1, 2019 12:32 AM

mudchicken

3% either side of Pando (uncompensated)....Spikebuck is well east of there (100 miles), just out of the west side of the Gorge where RRRR/RGCX run to the west end of Parkdale, barely 3 miles into the mothballed territory.

 

Thank you, sir.

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