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Oak Hills (Moffat Circle) <br />• Milepost 171.9. Elevation 7372. Full stop for both passenger trains. Oak Hills <br />served as the tipple for the Moffat Mine (portions of two tipples remain) and was <br />another mine camp. The area was abandoned in the early 1950s when the mine ran <br />out of coal. A few collapsing structures and various pieces of mining machinery <br />remain but it is uninhabited except in the summertime by campers and Labor Day <br />celebrants. The Moffat had its own switch engine here for shuttling rail cars. <br />Juniper <br />An early mine located between Oak Hills and Routt. This mine was closed as <br />a result of legal difficulties in the 1920s and never reopened. Photographs show it <br />to have once been o busy place. Miners were required to live in the camp. There <br />were apparently sidings for rail use but no timetables old enough to show them <br />survive. (The oldest surviving timetable is Mr. Williams' from 1928 -- no DNW&P <br />timetables are known.) <br />The mine had hit major faults underground and may have been financially unable <br />• to keep up while searching for the coal seam. The Hayden brothers took over <br />receivership, and many of its buildings, including the schoolhouse, went to Haybro. <br />Little remains but water running from arust-covered hole in a hillside and the <br />ruins of a railroad wye. The other mines have used the Juniper's shafts to drain their <br />mines of water. <br />Routt <br />Milepost 173.4. Elevation 7279. A 37-car siding and mine tracks for the <br />Keystone Mine. Full stop for the passenger train, flag stop for the mixed. It had <br />a covered waiting depot, three walls with one side open for passengers, cream cans, <br />etc. All the cream from the Yampa Valley went to Coors for use in the malting <br />process. <br />Several tracks went beneath the tipple for the different grades of coal -- loads <br />were dropped For the railroad to pick up. <br />• <br />