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Keystone <br />• Milepost 173.6. Elevation not given. Mine tracks; no passenger stop. <br />Apparently this is the siding for the Keystone Power Plant, which provided electric <br />power for the region until the arrival of the first power line over Green Mountain <br />in The 1950s. <br />Haybro <br />Milepost 175.0. Elevation 7169. A 59-car siding and mine tracks for the Haybro <br />Mine. The mine tracks here had three-way switches, a feature common to Colorado's <br />narrow gauge railroads in the early era, but something of an oddity among standard <br />gauge railroads. Like Routt, it was a full stop for the passenger train and a flag <br />stop for the mixed. The passenger stop was at the company store (the old foundation <br />of which is still being used to support a different structure). <br />Haybro had a switch engine here for mine use which, like that at Oak Hills, was <br />standard gauge To interchange with the railroad and was run up to the roundhouse at <br />~ Phippsburg for repairs and maintenance. <br />• Haybro town ran along both sides of the current highway, State 131. There were <br />two-story rooming houses operated by Shabota and located above the existing <br />showerhouse. Lombardi's house svgs the site of the doctor's office, mine office, and <br />a couple of rented rooms upstairs. A grocery store and a combination union/ <br />dance/pool hall and filling station were south of Lombardi's. The showerhouse itself <br />was a notorious Oak Creek party site in the 1940s. Locals would have lots of good <br />parties there, get drunk, and dance the night away. <br />Miners were required to live in camp, but this rule was not enforced here as <br />thoroughly as at Juniper and many of the miners lived elsewhere, even Though the <br />camp boasted such comforts as hot water heat from the mines' steam lines. <br />Harding <br />Milepost 176.2. Elevation not given. No passenger stop. <br />The Arrowhead area was mined a lot but not extensively. The Steamboat Springs <br />• Electric Company Mines, Harding Mine, and later Arrowhead tipple of the Moffat <br />Coal Company were located here, just west (by rail) or northeast of the site of <br />