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Georgetown Loop RR, Sliver Plume, Colorado, 30 May 1983
In May and June 1983, I traveled with four friends through the Rocky Mountain states on a railfanning road trip.
We spent the night of 29-30 May in Cheyenne, Wyoming, then headed south into Colorado with our first goal the Georgetown Loop RR at Silver Plume. The line is 3' gauge and is a reconstruction of tthe former Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville, later Colorado and Southern, line that closed in 1938
We rode one train, then photographed the next, both led by Shay #14. Other equipment was stored in various states of repair.
The high bridge that made the line the Georgetown Loop had not yet been built, but several miles of track had been restored on the former Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville, later Colorado and Southern, line and the train backed down from Silver Plume to where the loop bridge was. The bridge was reconstructed the following year.
The line's website is at www.georgetownlooprr.com/
It seems that since I was there in 1983, all of the equipment that I saw has been replaced by new equipment, so the website does not have any information on any of the 1983 locomotives.
We stopped in Georgetown, where I shot the Hotel de Paris from abut the same angle as the photo in Lucius Beebe's "Highball".
image051-Georgetown-Loop
Georgetown Loop RR, Sliver Plume, Colorado, 30 May 1983
In May and June 1983, I traveled with four friends through the Rocky Mountain states on a railfanning road trip.
We spent the night of 29-30 May in Cheyenne, Wyoming, then headed south into Colorado with our first goal the Georgetown Loop RR at Silver Plume. The line is 3' gauge and is a reconstruction of tthe former Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville, later Colorado and Southern, line that closed in 1938
We rode one train, then photographed the next, both led by Shay #14. Other equipment was stored in various states of repair.
The high bridge that made the line the Georgetown Loop had not yet been built, but several miles of track had been restored on the former Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville, later Colorado and Southern, line and the train backed down from Silver Plume to where the loop bridge was. The bridge was reconstructed the following year.
The line's website is at www.georgetownlooprr.com/
It seems that since I was there in 1983, all of the equipment that I saw has been replaced by new equipment, so the website does not have any information on any of the 1983 locomotives.
We stopped in Georgetown, where I shot the Hotel de Paris from abut the same angle as the photo in Lucius Beebe's "Highball".