February 24, 2015 07:45AM
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Thanks Nathan, it all starts to make more sense now. My picture was taken in May 1968 which apparently was right after the loop was completed and the connection not yet done. The first freight of the year had just been run, so the need for the connection was just developing. As Earl notes it would be interesting to know if it was planned or an oh @#$%& after thought when somebody realized the freights were not quite abandoned yet.
It is interesting that the diamond was a temporary installation. Diamonds are a fairly expensive piece of specialty track work, and putting a temporary one in seems extravagant. But maybe the DRGW had a spare laying around (where else did the narrow gauge use a diamond?) or perhaps nobody cared because CDOT was paying for it.
To bring the discussion up to date, some time later the connection pictured appears to have been moved west (north) toward the station, possibly to relocate it to tangent track to minimize maintenance and derailment risks of having a switch on a curve. The tracks it connects to are now just dead storage tracks.
JBWX
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