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Wes, there used to be rails in the Black Hills, and the DM&E still goes through Rapid City. There has been a semi-serious attempt for years to get rails back into Deadwood from Sturgis, the right of way is still there and the tunnel is for the most part still sound. Kevin Costner has been pumping millions into getting something started. He has been trying to get a casino and hotel built, the "Dunbar (Dun-for?) Ranch" in honor of his "Dances With Wolves" phase. I knew of some people who got in on that still born turd and there was a lot of money to be made. I even saw some of the engineering drawings, it was downright scary.

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I once saw a live steam engine in Deadwood but that was a real long time ago, when Cy was a mere lad (teenager). Was there once a dual gauge set-up in Deadwood, I'm thinking it was a narrow gauge locomotive.

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Did it have flowers planted all around it?

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Cy Valley wrote:

I once saw a live steam engine in Deadwood but that was a real long time ago, when Cy was a mere lad (teenager). Was there once a dual gauge set-up in Deadwood, I'm thinking it was a narrow gauge locomotive.



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Come to think about it, there appeared to be a small RR museum in downtown  Deadwood.

I think there was a steam engine locked up in a barn like structure--maybe on the road to Lead.  This was at the beginning of a rail to trail project.


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We were on a family vacation, we stopped in Deadwood, the details are hazy, but I remember seeing it, live steam, we're talking mid-sixties, sometime. Whatever. No flowers, no flowerpot, just happened to be there, that's all.

Is the saloon where James Butler Hickock was assassinated still standing, seems like I remember something about that, too.  With his deadman's hand laid out on the table.

-- Edited by Cy Valley at 04:40, 2008-12-16

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