Re: NG Where is it # 1
| January 13, 2020 11:15PM |
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Chris Walker Wrote:
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> Earl Wrote:
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> > Phantom Canon on the C&TS somewhere in the
> > vicinity of MP 313.
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>
> If this is where Earl's milepost reference is,
> then that is where I thought of first up.
> However you'd see a towering cliff face behind the
> trees, not present in the Photo.
>
> [digital.denverlibrary.org]
> on/p15330coll22/id/75066
> [attachment 60636 DPL_C-255.JPG]
>
> So I figured it must be somewhere else......or is
> it?
> On a second look I see odd lines across Rich's
> image where a cliff face would be.
>
> [attachment 60637 fakery.JPG]
Picture was taken before the standard gauge was built over La Veta in 1899 and the mileposts were moved.
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> Earl Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Phantom Canon on the C&TS somewhere in the
> > vicinity of MP 313.
>
>
> If this is where Earl's milepost reference is,
> then that is where I thought of first up.
> However you'd see a towering cliff face behind the
> trees, not present in the Photo.
>
> [digital.denverlibrary.org]
> on/p15330coll22/id/75066
> [attachment 60636 DPL_C-255.JPG]
>
> So I figured it must be somewhere else......or is
> it?
> On a second look I see odd lines across Rich's
> image where a cliff face would be.
>
> [attachment 60637 fakery.JPG]
Picture was taken before the standard gauge was built over La Veta in 1899 and the mileposts were moved.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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