February 24, 2015 07:14AM
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Ah, so they did put a switch in on the north end but not until a bit later in 1968. It seems the reason they put the diamond in was not only to reach the south end of the yard, but also to access the ash pit. Later a new ashpit was built near the roundhouse, and the diamond removed. You can see this in the last pic.
The track that came was the old loop track did not seem to have much of a purpose. The sunken track to serve the ashpit with dump gons came off of the old loop.
Makes you wonder why the switch to the south yard wasn't installed when they built the yard in April. Maybe someone in Durango yelled to Denver that they still had to few freight trains they had to run and with out the tracks connected, they couldn't do much work.
Or perhaps Denver, didn't want them to connect the tracks just to make life more difficult, then when Denver wasn't looking Jack Rentfro simply put the switches in.
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