From what I’ve seen of Colorado mining ops they seem to have built a loading siding if space allowed it. Chances that there’s more than one mine within a relatively short distance are pretty good. In this case East and West of town; since they’re in opposite corners of the room there is “some distance”.
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Two mines that need to be switched. Last modification will be the track arrangement in town. Looking at the original track plan I’m still not clear if this is supposed to be a junction (?). Apropos pictures, there is some neat stuff to be found htt://
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I left the “p” out of http, this is a large picture.