ABOVE: Today’s train has picked up eight gondolas and eight ore jennies in the Union Pacifi c yard at Laramie, Wyo., and is about to pass under the Clark Street overpass on on July 15, 1996.
needed income to continue the operation and ended in 1995. The main source of revenue came from a surface coal mine located east of Walden where the Kerr Coal Company trucked the coal to a load- out in town and WYCO transported the low-sulfur and high-BTU output coal to the Mountain Cement plant in Lara- mie. Throughout the years, the surface coal seam had been extensively mined, which left only deep coal, expensive and economically unfeasible to mine. Thus, in late May 1996, the final 100 loads of coal were removed from Walden and the track between Walden and Northgate was dismantled. This left the Laramie to Northgate segment still intact.
A Good Chase
During my college years, I spent some memorable fall days hiking above the Albany switchbacks, waiting on the passenger excursion train, but I never managed to catch any freight action. All that changed when I spoke to the WYCO employee, who informed me the railroad was tasked to remove 600-800 carloads of U.S. government-owned fluorspar ore stockpiled at Northgate, just up the road
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WYCO: West of Laramie
Illustration by Otto M. Vondrak. Not all railroads and stations shown. Not an offi cial map. ©2015 White River Productions
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