On October 26, 1968 the annual fall sugar “campaign” is under way in Northern Colorado. Branch lines swarm with extras, light engine movements and caboose hops. Here at Dent, junction of the Denver-LaSalle Dent branch and the line to Fort Collins, Union Pacific GP9’s 225 and 189 have just brought in a beet extra and are waiting with a caboose to couple on to another train which will soon arrive from the south. Then the whole works, as many as 70 loaded gons, will make its way to one of Great Western Sugar Company’s massive refineries, either in Fort Collins, Longmont or Loveland. The harvest, which began in September, will continue well into December.
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