19. Photo runby on the High Line.
20. Tagging along on the special was a car as incongruous to the rear of a narrow gauge train as "bumblebee 473" was to the point: Zephyr-ish, dome-ish car 313, the
Silver Vista. As I understand it, Rio Grande's Burnham Shops built the car in 1947 using an old open platform coach that had already been reworked once into maintenance of way outfit car 0313. The Silver Vista was damaged in a fire at the Alamosa car shops in 1953 and scrapped. D&S built a replica of the car in 2006.
21. Continuing north toward Silverton, another artifact created for the filming of "Denver & Rio Grande" flashes past - the waiting shelter at "Texas Creek." The movie was a fictionalized account of Rio Grande's fight with the Santa Fe over rights to the Royal Gorge route, and the producers went so far as to use some real station names off that line. The real Texas Creek was a bit west of the Royal Gorge where the branch to Westcliffe once came off.
27. Taking water at Tank Creek tank when it was still a regular wooden tank. According to DRGW.net, this tank was replaced with the current steel tank car body in 1966.
28. One more photo stop somewhere in the canyon
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