Re: Foliage & Fotos - Looking Back at Cresco Tank

Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> . . . here are two shots {taken at Cresco}, the
> first being 483 on the June 5, 1968 first trip up
> Cumbres Pass for the year.  Note the lack of
> pines on the left . . .
>
> The second one was 483 acting as the helper
> for 488 (IIRC).  Note . . . . the pine on the left
> and how big it is.  Today this shot may not be
> easy to get.


Here's a more recent shot from roughly that position, Greg -

Taken during while waiting for the HTP charter in 2015:


To really appreciate how much the trees have grown in that area we need to go back in time and look back at the tank from the opposite direction.  All of these have been posted previously, but not at the same time.  This first one features the very first Phraud-O-Phreight® on the C&TS, the 'Toltec Rattler' of October 22, 1972:


Roughly three years later — in late September, 1975, after a brief but very cold storm had turned every deciduous tree in the Rockies a bright gold:


Jumping forward to September, 2009, the trees are definitely beginning to seriously impinge on the view:


By October 2012 it was impossible to include the state line sign, the telegraphone shack, and the water tower all in one photo — even with a wide-angle lens:


As noted a few years ago, it would take a large herd of beavers living in Cresco Creek to get the trees under control.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



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