November 13, 2019 08:12PM
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The preceding posts by tgbcvr and Chris Walker show an Otto Perry photo of 317 and 454 climbing the east side of Cerro with a distinctive peak to the south. Today I drove back to Cerro to find this photo location. Since there are few locations where the train runs north on the climb, I hiked to the grade at the big horseshoe curve about half a mile below the pass, and sure enough I found the location where Otto Perry stood 77 years ago. Back in November 1942 the ground near the railroad was pretty bare. Today it is covered with tall grasses and sagebrush 5 feet high, which makes the grade less distinct, but the mountains still look the same.
In this photo I am standing to the right of the grade, like Otto Perry did. Continuing uphill, the grade enters a curving cut and then enters a fill leading to a long-gone trestle
A closer view of the sagebrush-covered grade and distant mountains.
[attachment 59163 Hairpin28.jpg
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/13/2019 08:15PM by Olaf Rasmussen.
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