Three weeks into spring, winter still blankets the right-of-way along Colorado’s Joint Line as Fort Worth and Denver 751-A rumbles through Louviers, a few miles south of Denver. On April 15, 1967 – tax day – Louviers is still a tidy little company town for the employees of E.I. du Pont de Nemours, which since 1908 has been making dynamite and nitroglycerin in a sprawling facility nearby. The track here is Rio Grande’s -- Santa Fe’s northbound line is a few hundred yards east – and the train is Colorado & Southern’s, which, along with FW&D, is a subsidiary of the Burlington. Both C&S and FW&D will disappear into Burlington Northern in 1981, the same year du Pont will end dynamite production at Louviers
