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Here's a link to a good history of the Rio Grande Southern http://users.viawest.net/~bdwhite/rgstec8.htm <br /> It turns out that the railroad was deemed so vital to the war efforts in WWII, because of its location near mines of several types of strategic metals, that the Office of Defense Transportation effectively bought the road from its receiver in 1942. <br /> And the RGS did apparently haul out the ore that wound up in the Hiroshima bomb. But a highway effectively ended the need for the railroad even before teh end of the war.
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