Re: Leadville map

Very cool:

I have wandered up to Ibex, years ago.

On the upcoming layout, I am looking for a mining town to model, and had considered Black Hawk, but am thinking of Leadville now.

When I was young, my great-grandmother lived there. (think pre-Eisenhower/ Johnson [then Straight Creek] Tunnel days when a trip to Leadville was a real journey!) According to my Mom, her outhouse was over a mine shaft. The house is still there--much remodeled, but I bet the shaft has been secured.

A fellow I know in Denver now owns the former Leadville dump. Every year he has a digging party, rents a back hoe and harvests old trash. No doubt he is picking up tin cans in addition to lots of blue glass. I chuckle that he is no doubt getting some of my families waste to boot!

Keith