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I'll look for a copy of that atlas--sounds like something I'd enjoy looking at. There are some abandoned lines here in Illinois and it's hard to figure out which railroad owned them, when they were abandoned, etc. My dad had several friends who worked for the C&NW Chicago headquarters and they always talked about Lander. There was some big mystery about what the railroad's intentions were as far as building there, and why they stopped at Lander. Isn't there a big mountain range at Lander? Maybe they saw that and decided to quit while they were ahead. I was wondering if the Lander route was somehow based on the old Oregon Trail's "Lander Cutoff." Supposedly the C&NW could have become a transcontinental railroad but they ran out of money and quit at Lander. This could be just legend, however.
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