tgbcvr Wrote:
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> Aha, that was it. I wonder if it was when they
> were putting the new bridge over the river above
> where the old Lake City branch used to come in. It
> features in a lot of the Junction photos.
IIRC, the bridge you refer to was put in about 1924, part of the improvements that killed the Gunnison-Montrose passenger train. The 1944 work involved replacing a bridge at Sapinero that had been washed out.
> Too bad
> the rail line is all under water there now.
>
When I lived in Gunnison old-timers used to complain that Blue Mesa Dam had ruined the salmon runs. Maybe we could get them removed to save these very endangered(mythical?) salmon runs?
Hank