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Re: Donner Pass Track #1
Author: rgcx
Date: 01-22-2013 - 23:12

The visionary plan was to modernize and streamline SP. In 1993, Moyers ordered miles of double track of the Overland route retired and removed (Short sidings on the I-5 corridor were retired too) just as he did with Illinois Central's Chicago-New Orleans double track. It was sickening to watch MoW tear it up. Some rail trains were sent to re-use for Sunset double tracking, but a lot was salvaged as 50ft track panels in gondolas and sent east over Donner.

My father documented the last time MoW equipment travelling on rails to pass thru Summit tunnel #6 before the rail was unbolted and dragged out by tractors.

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  Donner Pass Track #1 JR 01-22-2013 - 21:00
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 rgcx 01-22-2013 - 23:12
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 OTN 01-23-2013 - 11:05
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 WAF 01-23-2013 - 11:32
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 theconductor 01-23-2013 - 13:51
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 JR 01-23-2013 - 14:38
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 Dick Dorn 01-23-2013 - 16:08
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 j 01-23-2013 - 17:13
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 JR 01-23-2013 - 21:46
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 Silver State 01-23-2013 - 23:57
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 Earl Pitts 01-25-2013 - 11:34
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 WAF 01-25-2013 - 14:20
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 Earl Pitts 01-25-2013 - 18:38
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 Chris Walker 01-23-2013 - 22:02
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 The Unprofessional Iconoclast 01-25-2013 - 21:51
  Re: Donner Pass Track #1 WAF 01-26-2013 - 07:55
  UP Dispatcher for North Idaho. Jim G. 01-24-2013 - 17:07
  Re: UP Dispatcher for North Idaho. Bill Maltby 01-24-2013 - 18:32
  Re: UP Dispatcher for North Idaho. Jim G. 01-24-2013 - 18:38


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