Re: corkscrew turntable

The Corkscrew turntable is on a privately owned, patented mining claim. Efforts are currently underway to purchase this property through the Trust for Public Land, using money from an appropriation from Congress, with a transfer to the US Forest Service as the end result. It will then be managed as a public access area, along with most of the Red Mountain Area that stretches from Chattanooga through Ironton Park over the top of Black Bear Pass almost up to the city limits of Telluride. Much of the Silverton Railway right-of-way will or already has been acquired by TPL for transfer to the Forest Service. See www.redmountainproject.com. This has been a 5 year project, and I've been a committee member since the start. We've managed to get 14.5 million on 3 separate appropriations from Congress for these purchases. The Red Mountain area was named as one of America's Most Endangered Historic Sites by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This was a key ingredient for getting help from our Congressional delegation, and a lot of credit has to go to Dick Moe, president of the National Trust, who has a summer home in the Telluride area. It helps to have friends in high places.