Looks like the Greenland region to me.
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Love seeing old boxcars with slogans on them.
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| Posted by beano on November 10, 2015 | |
Is the joint line a connector line between different railroads in Colorado ?
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This "Joint Line" began in July 1871 when the new Denver & Rio Grande RR was built to open a rail route from Denver to El Paso, Texas at the Rio Grande River to connect with a Mexican railroad to Mexico City. The new line reached Pueblo, 120 miles south of Denver, by June 1872. But the Rio Grande would never get anywhere near its namesake river, instead in 1880 turning westward through the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River to reach the mining boom towns in southwest Colorado after loosing the route on south to the Atchinson Topeka and Santa Fe RR. In 1888 after the D&RG's arch rival AT&SF completed their standard gauge line closely paralleling the Grande's between Denver and Pueblo, the Grande started standard gauging its line in order to better compete. To add to this rail competition, yet a third Denver to Pueblo line was built in 1881, operated through a succession of owners ending with the Colorado & Southern. In 1900 the C&S agreed to a joint operation using the ATSF's line, spawning for the first time the term "joint line," although the C&S line was largely unused until torn out in 1919.
The D&RG was not part of this new agreement, and continued to operate as a competing line, until WW I when America's railroads were taken over by the United States Railway Administration which mandated all Denver-Pueblo rail traffic would be a joint operation on just the two ATSF/C&S and D&RG lines, sharing all northbound traffic on one line, and all southbound traffic on the other. This joint operating practice continued after the war's end, today having funneled down to the two present "Joint Line" owners BNSF and UP (both still competing railroads, just like their predecessors). The Denver & Rio Grande Western ("Western" was added in 1921 after the D&RG merged with its own Rio Grande Western RR out of Utah) morphed itself into the Southern Pacific in 1988, which in turn in 1996 was sold to UP. The BNSF is the result of the Burlington Northern absorbing Colorado & Southern in 1981, then merging with the ATSF in 1996. Copy from the net. John
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