Nostalgia & History > the Dinky's of Great Western Sugar

Following my post of a couple days ago "Remembering the CO beet harvest 1969-70" and comments about Great Western Sugar's many facilities in this region, I went to my files to see how many of their 'Dinky's' I had shots of .... the results follow in multiple add-ons to this post

1. Ft. Morgan, CO May 9, 1977 some blue on this one, but not the shiny paint on the display version that I posted a couple days ago

2. Ft. Morgan, CO Nov. 5, 1980

3. Ft. Morgan, CO Nov. 3, 1975



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4. Mitchell, NE 12/24/74 Larry Dilts original

5.location unknown May 1975 Jim Jeffrey original

6. Mitchell, NE 12/11/79 Al Burns original



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7. Bayard, NE 10/9/75 Larry Dilts original

8. Gering, NE 3/24/79 Al Burns original

9. Longmont, CO 10/18/70 .... this is the same one in the action shot in my post of a couple days ago



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10. Loveland, CO 9/21/77

11. Loveland, CO 10/31/71

12. Lovell, WY 4/20/76 Larry Dilts original



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13. Ovid, CO 2/8/70

14. Sterling, CO 7/81 Al Burns original .... sure demonstrates the old line of 'stuffed and mounted'!!

15. Billings, MT 11/78 Al Burns original .... and this one is an 0-6-0



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16. Scottsbluff, NE 10/9/75 Larry Dilts original

and in addition to the Davenport diesel that I posted the other day, here's the GE44T that GWS had, in two schemes

17. at Johnstown, CO 2/15/71

18. at Johnstown, CO 8/24/83



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I always liked those little tank engines.

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I spent the night at Fr.Morgan years ago and could hear a dinky thundering away all night
that 0-6-0T is cool looking

That last 44 toner went to Brighton after GW bankrupted. Amalagmated Sugar bought the bins and sugar in 1984 and used the engine

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> That last 44 toner went to Brighton after GW
> bankrupted. Amalagmated Sugar bought the bins and
> sugar in 1984 and used the engine


yup, here it is on May, 2, 1997 at Brighton, CO, a little late for the Bicentennial!

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Those first ones look like they were modeled after my Varney Docksider!

Believe White Satin switcher now at South Fork, CO, on that Wagon Wheel Gap RR operation - not operational last I heard.



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What's amazing is how late the little steamers ran. There were several ex-Great Falls engines
at Silver Star MT and again I believed they saved from scrap virtually all that were running at the
end. Now if someone could have done with a few Rio Grande SG engines we would be relics
ahead!

Ran up to close to the end of Great Western Sugar's life