Re: Mostly gone in the 50's, with a slight odor of butterflies

Hi, Hank et al -

Here's a couple of the Butterfly Trestle taken in late summer, 1968.  If you took a tour
"around the circle" from Durango to Ouray via Rico in one direction and Silverton in the
other, you could have seen it from highway 145 a few miles south of Telluride.  By the
time I moved there in the fall of 1972 the trestle had been torn down, and the timbers
used to shore up the nearby Butterfly Mine ...



- Russ

p.s.  Most of youse guys are young whippersnappers, and need to see a few more winters before even THINKING of becoming
Curmudgeons.   I'm way past sixty, and the Troll JéBêWèX still considers me a mere apprentice!



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/14/2014 12:07PM by Russo Loco.