While browsing over the plans for a project we’re bidding in Windsor, CO, I came across the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad. I’m curious if anyone knows anything about it. I was under the impression that the line in question (running from Greeley, CO to Ft. Collins, CO) was part of the Great Western.
Is this a case of an engineer not having any clue about what railroads run where (I see this a lot on plans with C&S, D&RGW, CB&Q, and even KP showing up from time to time), or is this a new short line that I have no idea about?
Didn’t the Colorado Midland run from Greeley over the Divide at Cameron Pass? I hadn’t found anything on the CM’s ambitions, but I wonder if the GSL&P was a proposed subsidiary of CM at one point?
I believe the Greeley-Windsor-Fort Collins line was built by the Union Pacific in 1882 and probably transfered to the Colorado and Southern when UP lost control of the C&S shortly afterwards. This line was still part of BN in 1988 and was part of the Great Western by 1999. Mudchicken probably knows a lot more than that.
Nanaimo has it partially correct. It was part of the breakup in 1890 breakup of the UPD&G that morphed into C&S. Could feed you more on this but I’m at least 200 miles west of you at the moment. (Had nothing to do with Colorado Midland)…The railroad had big dreams, its surveyors were all over Western Colorado and were over Rollins Pass long before Moffat’s bunch. (I’m dealing now with a never built GLO filing in western CO from CB&Q under an assumed name)
…and as much as I teach, there are still gaggles of e-people and s-people who just don’t get it regarding the railroad name on the drawing. Wonder if they got the name from the GIS dummies at Weld County who a bunch of confused puppies around railroads / can’t function outside the courthouse.
The 1979 Offical RR Guide has NO listing for G & SL & P RR. There is a listing for the The Great Western Railway Co but DOES NOT show them serving Greeley on any of their branches. [:p]
The 1979 Offical RR Guide has NO listing for G & SL & P RR. There is a listing for the The Great Western Railway Co but DOES NOT show them serving Greeley on any of their branches. [:p]
Because the Great Western OmniTrax/ had not leased and later purchased the C&S ine netween 1997 and 1999.
Greeley Salt Lake & Western has been gone over 100 years.
My guess is that SPBed is a horrible history student if he is still in school[}:)]
A lot of property maps which show individual plats will often show the railroad right of way by the original name of its original owner. In Oak Lawn IL, the NS/Metra line is shown on property maps as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific RR ROW. I’m sure that this happens in other locations, too.
All I was saying that as of 1979 it was not listed in the Offical RR guide published for that year. If it demised over 100 years ago then it would certainly not be listed in 1979. [:p]
Yeah - but it must be a lot of fun for the Emergency Management People using county GIS to get hold of the railroad. Do they hold seances to contact Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific?[:D]