Re: Cresco Near The Trestle - Beavers Needed!

Hi, Roger -

Are there any beavers in Cresco Creek*?   If not, you should start a colony so that someday this shot from September, 1975, can be replicated:

Note that the helper engine, #484, is lettered 'A la Knoob' and the road engine, #483, is lettered 'A la Bush Coker'.

I went back up there in 2004, and there were so many trees that I could barely even see the telegraphone booth from the 'Enter Colorado' sign - much less see the trestle - and just the very top of the water tower was visible. I had to move way off to the side, and take a wide-angle shot to get all of the "props" in the picture:


Plenty of Beaver Food, though . . .    

- Russo

* Is that the correct name of the creek, or is it "El Rio Chico de los Curmudgeones Viejos y Verdes Perdidas in Purgatorio"?

p.s. Roger Hogan has posted a very nice 2009 fall-colors shot of this location on the C&TS website recently.
IIRC, Roger and Michael Ripley were nearby when I shot the following:




Edited 8 time(s). Last edit at 11/06/2016 12:49PM by Russo Loco.