Re: Twin Bridges in Fall, Elk Park in Spring . . . 
| November 02, 2019 10:59PM |
Russo, doing some math, your photos must have been taken in the late 1950s or very early 1960s, when scrambling up scree slopes would have been a pretty casual thing to do. Your photos show a much more open Elk Park scene than today. As for Chris Walkers photo... I am pretty sure that there hasn't been a train of box cars in the upper canyon for a very long time. And thanks for JBWX's comment. As for scrambling up scree slopes, I wasn't quite done with it that afternoon. There were still two more down trains to go. I caught the second train from another scree slope about a 3/4 mile above Elk Park:
After this viewpoint I crossed the Animas River bridge and headed up the trail for this view of the Elk Park fall colors, and incidentally the third train
After this viewpoint I crossed the Animas River bridge and headed up the trail for this view of the Elk Park fall colors, and incidentally the third train
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Olaf Rasmussen | October 31, 2019 12:00AM |
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Russo Loco | October 31, 2019 11:17AM |
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Chris Walker | October 31, 2019 02:24PM |
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John West | October 31, 2019 03:08PM |
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Olaf Rasmussen | November 02, 2019 10:59PM |
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Russo Loco | November 03, 2019 08:56PM |
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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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