Nice...wish I had had sense enough to ride the Zephyr
back when the Grande was a real railroad. To the
NE Colorado members on here, whatcha know or where can
I find (and I have about 6 books and pamphlets I know about
on the Great Western Sugar Co. and its railroad) good
pictures of the "high lines", the raised sidings divided
by flumes that were used to unload sugar beets and wash
them into the plants? Only one photo shows up in the
Jessen book on Northern Colo. RRs. I visited and photoed
three of these inactive, a couple in ruins, plants up
I-76 recently (all three have 0-4-0T "dinkies" displayed,
and I have long since relettered a couple of the MTH
versions for GW for this complex..somebody on here wanted
a model of the Dockside), but property is fenced and
I saw no evidence of flumes as shown in that one photo..
probably long since bulldozed.
I have a HUGE kitbashed group of Korber kits for the
factory, have the sugar silos, need the "high line", and
I can get on to something else. I can imagineer it from
that one photo..but is sorta a shot in the dark.
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