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Experts needed to solve the mystery of Kobe's name *LINK*

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Sam March
August 13, 2004 04:00PM
If only Colorado's current Kobe connection would disappear so effectively.
Twelve miles south of Leadville on Highway 24, just before the valley narrows, the words "Kobe, Colo" appear written in stones on a hillside. Below, by the train tracks alongside the Arkansas River, a metal shed bears the word "Kobe."
That's all that's left of Kobe, once a stagecoach stop, then a siding on the now defunct Denver & Rio Grande route that came up from the south through Buena Vista to Leadville and on, yes, to Eagle County, where Kobe Bryant is still scheduled to go on trial August 27.
Has all the local, national, international and galactic interest in Kobe Bryant, L.A. Laker and accused sex offender, increased interest in Kobe, Colorado?
"No," says Kenton Forrest, librarian at the Colorado Railroad Museum, a repository of information both obvious and obscure about all things train-related. In fact, he's stumped by how that particular spot got its name. "A lot of sidings took the name of some prominent rancher or landowner near the town," he explains.
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