Editing Larimer County, Colorado (section)

===Railroads===
One of the primary goals of the early citizens of the county was the courting of [[railroad]]s. County residents were disappointed when the [[Denver Pacific Railroad]] bypassed the county in 1870 in favor of [[Greeley, Colorado|Greeley]]. The first railroad finally arrived in the county in 1877 when the [[Colorado Central Railroad]] extended a line north from [[Golden, Colorado|Golden]] via [[Longmont, Colorado|Longmont]] to [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]]. The town council of Fort Collins designated [[Right-of-way (railroad)|right-of-way]] through the center of town (and through the campus of the unbuilt college) for the line, creating a contentious issue to this day.

Along the new railroad sprung up the new [[plat]]ted towns of [[Loveland, Colorado|Loveland]] and [[Berthoud, Colorado|Berthoud]], named respectively after the [[William A.H. Loveland|president]] and [[Edward L. Berthoud|chief surveyor]] of the Colorado Central. Likewise, [[Wellington, Colorado|Wellington]] (founded in 1903) was named for a railroad employee. The [[Greeley, Salt Lake, and Pacific Railroad]] arrived three years later as a subsidiary of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]], with the intention of creating a transcontinental line over [[Cameron Pass (Colorado)|Cameron Pass]]. Although the line was never extended over the mountains, it opened up the quarrying of stone for the railroad at [[Stout, Colorado|Stout]], furnishing another industry for the region. The brief attempt at the mining of gold in the region centered at the now [[ghost town]] of [[Manhattan, Colorado|Manhattan]] in the [[Poudre Canyon]].