On a sunny November morning in 1968, the annual sugar “campaign” is at its height, and railroads are busy bringing in the beets all over northern Colorado. Rambling along Burlington’s Buckwheat Branch near Lafayette, SD9 431 and 449 have a train of beet gons and a half dozen or so tank cars for molasses loading at Great Western’s Longmont refinery. Fifty years after, this scene is much changed. Sugar no longer dominates the landscape. The Longmont plant is a magnificent ruin. Suburbia has spread across these fields, and the branch, abandoned in sections, has caught the eye of dreamers and planners as a possible route for rail commuter operation along the front range between Denver and Ft. Collins.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
