Re: Help with location

guymonmd Wrote:
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> This is only a guess, but to me it looks like
> somewhere near Palmer Lake.


I attended Colorado College – founded by General Palmer himself in the mid-1870s – located about 20 miles south of his namesake lake, and IIRC that doesn't look at all like how I remember the area (which is now thoroughly buried under housing tracts, strip malls, and all of the other uhg-u-ly artifacts of our "civilization" in the current age of diseasels).  Here's a train approaching scenic downtown Palmer Lake in mid-December, 1962:


. . . and a look in the opposite direction a few minutes later:


IMHO, the photo of D&RG #801 might have been taken near Buena Vista, between Salida and Leadville.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender

p.s.  FWIW, unless it's a crack in the original glass plate negative, there appears to be a tramway or maybe a logging flume angling at roughly 30° from lower left to upper right across the full width of the photo, most visible about 2/3 of the way up the nearer hill directly above the engine's bell.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2022 05:22PM by Russo Loco.