Great Western Railway of Colorado explained

Railroad Name:Great Western Railway
Marks:GWR
Locale:Northeastern Colorado
End Year:present
Hq City:Loveland, Colorado

The Great Western Railway of Colorado operates about 80miles of track in Colorado and interchanges with the Union Pacific Railroad as well as the BNSF Railway. It is currently a subsidiary of OmniTRAX but was founded in 1902 to serve the Great Western Sugar Company and other sugar beet and molasses companies in Colorado, and built by another Great Western subsidiary, Loveland Construction Company.[1] [2] It also operated passenger services from 1917 to 1926. Their route consists of a line from Loveland to Johnstown, Colorado, where it splits to Miliken and Longmont. Going north out of Kelim is Windsor where once again the line splits to go to their industrial park and Greeley, or Fort Collins. It has since expanded service to include customers such as Anheuser-Busch, Eastman Kodak and Simplot.

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  1. Web site: GERMANS FROM RUSSIA and the GREAT WESTERN SUGAR COMPANY . Carl McWilliams . cityofloveland.org . 2020 . 9 August 2020 .
  2. Web site: Silver Wedge: The Sugar Beet Industry in Fort Collins . Eric Twitty . SWCA Environmental Consultants . August 2003 . 9 August 2020 .