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Longmont, Colorado, and beyond, seeking a connection with the <br />Union Pacific in the Greeley, Colorado, area. No doubt the <br />presence of the Colorado Central encouraged Louisville's early <br />coal entrepreneurs, recognizing that the railroad gave them <br />ready, -if not always dependable, access to the Denver market. <br />On at least one occassion the train, in attempting to conquer <br />the steep hill south of Louisville, stalled and the passengers <br />had to get off the train, walk up the hill and wait for the <br />locomotive to struggle up the grade with its lightened load. <br />The appearance of more powerful locomotives and improvements <br />in the track eventually eliminated the problem of stalls on <br />the hill and the Colorado Central became the critical <br />the coal market chain from mine to consumer.9 <br />The Colorado Central was merged into the Union <br />link in <br />Pacific <br />system during the 1880s and remained part of that carrier until <br />nearly the turn of the century. During that period the railroad <br />also operated one of Louisville's coal mines through its subsidiary <br />Union Coal Company. However, the railroad apparently never <br />used the coal for locomotive fuel, depending instead on its <br />Carbon County, Wyoming, mines to feed its <br />the Union Pacific was forced into receivership <br />in the wake of the Panic of 1893, it was <br />iron horses. After <br />during the nineties, <br />reorganized and the <br />line through Louisville was pruned from the corporate structure. <br />However, it was not abandoned. Rather, most of the old Colorado <br />Central became the core of the newly created Colorado and Southern <br />(C&S). The C&S soon became a subsidiary of the Burlington Route, <br />6 <br />