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you refuted nothing.
the substations couldnt keep up with the little joes. thats why the geeps showed up.
the copper overhead may have been fine, but the poles holding it up were rotten. look at any picture.
the little joes werent worn out, but the bipolars and boxcabs most certainly were.
since there was next to no traffic originating on the line, nobody chose to run it. railroads dont make shit on bridge traffic, they make it on car loadings (originating traffic), and the per diem on what was, at the time, a boxcar.
had the line actually been profitable someone may have actually bought it and kept running it. since its a bike trail, what does that tell you?
i dont disagree it was a cool idea. and i would agree it probabl lowered operating costs. but to say that lines west/mountain division turned a profit is patently false.
