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A shortline usually did not have much of a roster of locomotives, not more than 1 or two, unless traffic required to have at least two locos under steam. The Crystal River & San Juan RR, located in Colorado and running from Aspen to Marble, may serve as an example. In the final days of the line, they just had to locos - one 2-6-0 and one 4-6-0, both from the 1890´s and "upgraded" along the time to fulfill safety rules. Abandonment came in 1940, when the marble quarry in Marble was pretty much depleted. A lot of info can be found in the book "Crystal River Pictorial" by Dell McCoy & Ross Collman, now out of print, but maybe obtainable <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.montageww.com/images/110_Crystal_River_Pictorial.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.montageww.com/prototypebooks/outofprint.html&usg=__R39D2s7LbmbyM943HJOerX-2eJg=&h=84&w=110&sz=4&hl=de&start=31&zoom=0&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=5QOB326PRwpMWM:&tbnh=65&tbnw=85&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCrystal%2BRiver%2B%2526%2BSan%2BJuan%2BRR%26start%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dnet.gmx:de:official%26ndsp%3D18%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D638%26tbm%3Disch&ei=DaW7Tf2XLcHX8gOcstXNBg">here</a>
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