Author Topic: New Mexico Two footer with Colorado ties(NPI)  (Read 4969 times)

Ira Schreiber

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Re: New Mexico Two footer with Colorado ties(NPI)
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2014, 08:42:07 PM »
There's a picture in the back of Linwood Moody's "Maine Two Footers" of one of the shays with a four man crew.
I guess ties would be appropriate for a high desert line. Can't grow grass without rain!
I did note in the Wikipedia article that there was a tank car on their roster. So B&SR wasn't alone.

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Re: New Mexico Two footer with Colorado ties(NPI)
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2014, 11:51:32 PM »
The tank car was for locomotive water as New Mexico is short on that commodity.