Re: Ophir Loop Area (map)

Dennis Tebo Wrote:
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> That is lower terminal for the Alta Mine aerial
> tramway. This structure also served as an ore bin
> and loaded cars on the spur to the left of the
> depot.
>
> Get yourself some of the RGS Story books or [Mal
> Ferrell's] Silver San Juan, lots of great pictures
> and stories ...

... plus a roster, several O-scale plans, and some excellent maps. Here's a small snippet of the detail map for the Ophir Loop area; it looks like the photo of the depot was taken from right in front of Burley's store:


The Butterfly Trestle - about a mile west and downhill from the depot - was still standing in September, 1968, but by the time I moved to Telluride four years later the owner of the Butterfly Mine had bulldozed it down to use the timbers in his tunnels ...


"Sic transit gloria mundi"

- Russ

Edit 02/25 - One of the things I like most about the Narrow Gauge - and so many of the photos posted here - is the simple LOGICAL-NESS (if there is such a word) of the way problems were solved.   The Butterfly Trestle is was a PERFECT example: There is a creek to cross, there's no way to put a bent in the middle of the creek, so - put some 8"(?) by 24"(?) timbers supported by extra bents across the middle of the creek, and build the bridge on top of them.   This structure is was so GRACEFUL and ELEGANT - it's a crying shame that it was lost ...



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/05/2010 04:02PM by Russo Loco.