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Anaconda - What's left Here is a couple of shots of what is left of Anaconda, Colorado [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
Video #8 [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvfLQN9ezUw"]YouTube - Cripple Creek & Victor NG #08[/ame]
End of the Line Here in the ghost town of Anacoda, CO we also find a Tour Map that shows what is left of the Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railway and a map that talks about the Gold Camps of days gone by when the line use to go all the way to Victor, CO. - From here we travel down the road to Victor, CO where the line once reached before we headed towards Colorado Springs. The next part of this topic will be about what we saw between Victor and Colorado Springs.
September 24 (Part II) - Victor, CO; Midland Terminal [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
Just down the hill from the old Midland Terminal Depot here in Victor, I find a abandon Combine Passenger Car that is near it's end. [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
Midland Terminal Railway - (Jessie) Waters Tunnel [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]This is what is documented by the Colorado Historical Society: MIDLAND RAILROAD TERMINAL In 1894 the Midland Terminal Railway became the second railroad to reach the mining district—and the first to provide a direct link between Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek. Your travels along State Highway 67 generally follow or parallel the grade of the Midland Terminal. WATERS TUNNEL Built in 1893, the timber-supported, 475-foot Waters Tunnel was the only tunnel on the Midland Terminal’s route. It was named for Jessie Waters, the railroad’s resourceful superintendent. When a rival railroad company got a permit to lay track on Cripple Creek’s Fifth Avenue, Waters piled the crew with vintage whiskey, thus ending all work for the day. The next morning he obtained an injunction and forced the rival company to lay its track elsewhere. Waters was killed in 1914 when his inspection car collided with a switch engine. Following the Midland Terminal’s abandonment in 1949, the Waters Tunnel was converted to auto use and became a one-lane tunnel on State Highway 67. In 1993 the middle portion of the tunnel collapsed, forcing its closure by Colorado Department of Transportation engineers.
Colorado & Southern Freight House AT&SF Next Stop, Colorado Springs as we hunt down various structures around town. Here we find the old C&S Freight House AT&SF building [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
Colorado & Southern Depot Right next door to the Freight House is the Colorado Springs C&S Depot. [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] I've got a few more images online as well [/FONT]
Rio Grande As we headed for our next destination we came across a Rio Grande Caboose & Engine... [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
Denver & Rio Grange Western / Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Now here is a GRANDe Depot I'm sure you will agree!!!!!!! [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
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Denver & Rio Grande #168 Right near the depot is Antlers Park were we find Narrow Gauge Steam Engine #168 which was the first engine of the Denver & Rio Grande to pull a passenger from Denver to Ogden on May 21, 1883. It was retire from service 50 years later in 1933 and given to Colorado Springs on August 1, 1938. One nice looking lady!!!!!!! [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] More Images can be found on the RRAdventures Website too!!! [/FONT]
ATSF Freight Next stop is an old 1899 ATSF Stone Freight Station that still sits along side the tracks. You wonder what stories this old build could tell if it could talk!!! [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
Darren, This is great stuff. Thanks for posting all of it. I like it that you are getting shots of a lot of the buildings and cars and gee-gaws and whatzits, and not just the steam engines. Two foot gauge, eh? If everyone leans over to one side to get a picture, does it flip over? This looks only a little bigger than the trainset at the Oregon Zoo, which I think is 18" gauge.
Thanks, Lisa and I enjoy being shutter bugs when we take these trips. You never know when that last photograph of something maybe the last one ever taken before it's lost to time. Knowing too how modelers and historians like seeing things from various angles we also try to take those angles. At this point we headed over to our next location which is a CRI&P Engine House now converted into a Trolley Museum; but, it was closed and couldn't get a good shot. Something to add to the list for a future trip. (http://www.coloradospringstrolleys.com/) :tb-err: :tb-err: :tb-err: :tb-err:
As we get back to town we stop for one more shot Now part of the Ghost Town Museum, this is the Colorado Midland Steam Engine Maintenance Building
Well, that's all for this latest RRAdventures tale; but, there's still allot more tales to come. Keep in mind, these are Trip Reports are from 2006 still being told... :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink:
