the most interesting feature along the line was its double-horseshoe curve about 8 miles out of grand junction. it was there that most of the road's accidents occurred. the worst was when locomotive no. 4 rolled on its side sometime between 1915 and 1925. a curious fact about the lbc was that it lacked locomotive turning facilities. their locomotives operated facing the same direction the entire time the road owned them. when a train reached carpenter, the engine was run around the train on a passing track, coupled to the other end, and it pulled the return trip to grand junction in reverse.