A few more odds and ends from my latest trip out West:
In a Cheyenne park is this nicely preserved UP Ten-Wheeler, an 1890 product of the Cooke Works.
The signage is good:
The old Cheyenne depot has been preserved, and houses a small transportation museum which wasn't open when we were there.
On a somewhat different subject, in the narrow valley of the Big Thompson river are the remains of an early hydroelectric plant that was destroyed by one of the occasional violent floods that roar down the valley. I can only imagine what it was like when the water was up more than twenty feet and rising.
But it was interesting to examine what's left.
Always good advice:
And then when we were visiting Cuba, we were lucky enough to see a Frisco passenger train roll by:
So Happy Halloween, friends!
2 comments:
What's the story on the tracks suspended over what looks to have been a bridge at one time?
C Kronenwetter
That's a bridge over a creek on the Ft. Collins streetcar line, which I would think is part of the original system. It only has to hold one Birney, and nowadays it used only for the service car to get between the barn and the operating part of the line.
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