The Great Western Railway is a shortline with a spiderweb of tracks covering a large portion of the northern Front Range of Colorado. Based out of Loveland, tracks extend to Windsor, Greeley, Johnstown, Milliken, Longmont, and Fort Collins. The railroad was originally constructed to primarily haul sugar beets from the fields to the Great Western sugar mills located in Greeley, Loveland, Windsor, and Longmont. Today the shortline no longer hauls beets, but it does haul a varity of freight from local industries to interchange with the BNSF and UP.