The Classic Profile
Doug Harrop Photography • June 25, 1993
There are numerous angles and perspectives to photograph Castle Gate monument in Price Canyon. One of the finest is this trackside view, looking east. Access to it requires a bit of planning, hiking, and crossing a girder bridge over the Price River. Worth the effort, IMHO.
Doug did just that the afternoon of June 25, 1993. His subject matter was SP's hot Denver - Roseville Forwarder piggyback/container train with its colorful array of GP60s. The quartet includes samples of all three subsidiary roads of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company. According to Doug's notes, this photo was published in Pacific Rail News magazine.
The Denver & Rio Grande Western popularized travel in early promotional photography, posing for the Scenic Limited passenger train (among others) for photos at the foot of the Castle Gate. The monument originally featured a pair of gates until the highway department blew up the south formation in the 1960s in order to widen the highway. Yes, they really did that.
The Classic Profile
Doug Harrop Photography • June 25, 1993
There are numerous angles and perspectives to photograph Castle Gate monument in Price Canyon. One of the finest is this trackside view, looking east. Access to it requires a bit of planning, hiking, and crossing a girder bridge over the Price River. Worth the effort, IMHO.
Doug did just that the afternoon of June 25, 1993. His subject matter was SP's hot Denver - Roseville Forwarder piggyback/container train with its colorful array of GP60s. The quartet includes samples of all three subsidiary roads of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company. According to Doug's notes, this photo was published in Pacific Rail News magazine.
The Denver & Rio Grande Western popularized travel in early promotional photography, posing for the Scenic Limited passenger train (among others) for photos at the foot of the Castle Gate. The monument originally featured a pair of gates until the highway department blew up the south formation in the 1960s in order to widen the highway. Yes, they really did that.