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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by RRCHINA: [qb] The cost to maintain track that is solely used by 3 and 4 is not that great,this is between La Junta and Alb. [/qb][/QUOTE]Not quite true. The issue is past the point of low cost fixes. the cost of maintaining the track up to this point was comparatively not that great, however it has now reached the point of needing major work to maintain a reasonable speed. This is exactly the situation that occured on the Phoenix Line and on the ICRR's Grenada Division. I can say this from observation: Back when the Panama Limited was still running on the Grenada Division, I walked a couple of pieces of it just to see how things were. (All tresspasing lectures will be duly ignored.) The line was in well worn 112 lb jointed rail with justg barely class 4 tie conditions, plus having a lot of wood trestles that were near the end of their useful life. When I say worn rail, I mean that to the point that the tops of the joint bars were shiney from wheel flange contact. I would suspect that the same is true for La Junta to lamy at the least, if not for quite a bit of the rest of the line. It is to the point of needing major rail replacements and replacement of a significant percentage of the ties. This work will not be cheap. Unless Daddy Warbucks comes around and decides he wants to run fast passenger trains on it, the line's days as a passenger route are probably numbered. Now, it is certain that on a bisis dollar spent per passenger mile carried to have spent it here would have made a lot more sense than spending it on a near complete rail replacement on the Vermonter route, but that was where the political clout got the money spent. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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