Re: Alpine Tunnel 8-2-2020
| August 06, 2020 07:31PM |
Some more photos from the trip. Please excuse the youngsters in some of them. My brother and I are trying to educate the next generation and took our combined 6 kids up there with us.
Romley bridge still hanging in there. The road has been routed around it now so hopefully it will last a good long time.
Indeed!
Replica of the redwood timber structure inside the tunnel. It was common for trains to strike the sides due to extremely low clearance and loose nature of the granite talus inside.
The old tool shed just outside the engine house ruins.
Remains of the cistern in the engine house. When it burned in 1906 they built a new water tank upgrade from here.
Turntable pit in the engine house ruins. This is still vaguely evident as a depression with a fuzzy round stone outline. When the engine house burned in 1906 the turntable was moved up grade closer to the portal on the old construction spur. I believe the actual turntable used here still exists at the GLRR today.
Telegraph office is in good shape as long as you keep the doors closed for Marmot prevention. They own the place up there and aren't shy about letting you know!
The Williams Gulch water tank just downgrade from the Sherrod Loop. One of the few remaining DSP&P water tanks on the line, it was built in 1885 after the destruction of the Woodstock tank in the infamous avalanche. This tank was restored in the 1960's by the Mile High Jeep Club in cooperation with the USFS and then the footings were replaced again in 2010.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/06/2020 08:46PM by Justin Kerns.
Romley bridge still hanging in there. The road has been routed around it now so hopefully it will last a good long time.
Indeed!
Replica of the redwood timber structure inside the tunnel. It was common for trains to strike the sides due to extremely low clearance and loose nature of the granite talus inside.
The old tool shed just outside the engine house ruins.
Remains of the cistern in the engine house. When it burned in 1906 they built a new water tank upgrade from here.
Turntable pit in the engine house ruins. This is still vaguely evident as a depression with a fuzzy round stone outline. When the engine house burned in 1906 the turntable was moved up grade closer to the portal on the old construction spur. I believe the actual turntable used here still exists at the GLRR today.
Telegraph office is in good shape as long as you keep the doors closed for Marmot prevention. They own the place up there and aren't shy about letting you know!
The Williams Gulch water tank just downgrade from the Sherrod Loop. One of the few remaining DSP&P water tanks on the line, it was built in 1885 after the destruction of the Woodstock tank in the infamous avalanche. This tank was restored in the 1960's by the Mile High Jeep Club in cooperation with the USFS and then the footings were replaced again in 2010.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/06/2020 08:46PM by Justin Kerns.
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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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