Re: Coal mine branch
| May 15, 2010 10:48AM |
That was known as the "City Mine". It was the same vein but on the other side of the mountain. The La Plata mine was first and then they discovered the vein closer to town. Topo maps printed in the 70s still showed the abandoned RR grade in the upper part of the Grandview Valley...
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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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