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Georgetown, CO at night.
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Georgetown Loop Railroad steaming with Fall Colors and Snow.
The Georgetown Loop Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railway located in Clear Creek County, Colorado in the United States. The Georgetown Loop Railroad was one of Colorado’s first visitor attractions. Completed in 1884, this spectacular stretch of narrow gauge railroad was considered an engineering marvel for its time. The thriving mining towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume lie two miles apart in steep, narrow Clear Creek west of Denver. To connect them, engineers designed a corkscrew route that traveled nearly twice that distance, slowly gaining more than 600 feet in elevation. It included horseshoe curves, grades of up to 4 percent, and four bridges across Clear Creek, including the massive Devil’s Gate High Bridge. The Colorado & Southern Railway operated the line for passengers and freight until 1938. Originally part of the larger line of Colorado Central Railroad constructed in the 1870s and 1880s, it was later dismantled, but was restored in the 1980s to operate during summer months as a tourist railroad, carrying passengers using historic narrow-gauge steam locomotives.
In 1959, the centennial year of the discovery of gold in Georgetown, the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park was formed by the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society’s chairman negotiated a donation of mining claims and mills, and nearly 100 acres of land. Rail line construction began in 1973 with track and ties donated by the Union Pacific Railroad.
The four-mile segment opened on March 10, 1884 and is a restored segment at the upper end of the historic Colorado Central main line up Clear Creek Canyon west of Golden. It climbs approximately 640 feet between the two towns. The longer main line up the canyon was constructed in the wake of the Colorado Gold Rush and was used extensively during the silver boom that followed in the 1880s to haul the lucrative silver ore traffic down from the mines at Silver Plume. The Loop portion of the line was the crowning segment of the line at the top of the gorge and features a 95-foot high trestle. The entire line, including the Loop, was dismantled in 1939, but interest in restoration of the Loop segment as a tourist attraction in the 1970s led to the construction of a new high bridge and the refurbishment of the segment, which reopened in 1984.
The train ride includes an optional walking tour of the Lebanon Silver Mine, located at the halfway point on the railroad. Visitor walk 500 feet into a mine tunnel bored in the 1870s while guides point out the rich veins of silver and the history of the mine.
Passengers board the train at depots located in either Silver Plume or Georgetown. (Wikipedia)
Georgetown.
This small town was established in 1870. Like many SA towns the plan was fashioned on Light’s plan for Adelaide. The enclosing terraces of north, south, east and west were surrounded by parklands. But the suburbs never developed! The land was originally owned by Charles Fisher and so town streets were named after members of the Fisher family- Hurtle, William etc. The town soon had a post office (1873), Baptist Chapel (1874), a town council (1876), a courthouse (1879) and three general stores, two blacksmiths, and a hotel. The town was known as George Town until 1979 when it became Georgetown. Before the railway was extended from Blyth through to Gladstone the people of Georgetown petitioned for a railway from Gladstone. This was rejected as it was only 11 kms from Gladstone and this distance was easy for bullock drays to cover in a day’s travel. Close proximity to Gladstone led to other businesses and banks closing around 1900. The railway from Blyth eventually passed through the town from 1892. The town institute was designed by architect Daniel Garlick and opened in 1877. It has now been demolished and replaced. As its potential was considered great in the 1870s tiny Georgetown was the head church of the Baptist Church in the north of SA.
"Ich Bin Ein Berliner" Mural by Rodrigo Pradel on the side of a German Beer Hall in Georgetown called The Berliner.
We had to take a boat out to the lighthouse. The tour guide said people live in these boats but don't pay taxes or prier fees...Hope everyone has a Bless week!
I’ve wanted to get involved with the 100 Strangers Project since I became aware of it about six months ago. I love people but am a bit of an introvert so find it difficult to approach strangers. My wife and I were on a long driving vacation to Texas and Arizona when we stopped at a cute little bakery called “Desserts by Rebecca” in Georgetown, Kentucky. The clerk was a lovely, very personable young woman and on the spur of the moment I asked her if I could take her photo for the 100 Strangers Project. She quickly said yes and I took her photo. My wife and I and the clerk were all masked for covid so the photo was less then ideal. I then got brave and asked if she would be willing to take her mask down just long enough for one more quick photo. She pulled her mask down revealing this beautiful smile. I very much regret that I did not have the presence of mind to ask her name though she did say that she was not Rebecca. (The only camera I had handy was my little Sony RX100 and I could have chosen a better background but I got my first stranger.) Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page. To see more of my own photos check out my web site at Gary Bluhm Photography.
The old county courthouse in Georgetown, Texas, with Christmas decorations Adorning it and the town square. Georgetown is the county seat of Williamson County, and sits near the geographic center of the county. Its population is about 20% of the largest town, which would be round Rock (pop. around 120,000). In spite of the small population it is a thriving town, and growing rapidly (as people flee the high cost of living in Austin).
Georgetown, on Clear Creek approx. thirty miles west of Denver, was founded in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. The town did not grow significantly until the discovery of silver further up the canyon on September 14, 1864. The town dwindled following the collapse of the Silver Boom in 1893, until the 1950s when the town began to experience a small renaissance and has only grown in importance over the years since, as a popular tourist destination.
This photo, taken on September 23, 2002, is from the Guanella Pass Road, which rises into the mountains to the south of town. The tower of historic Alpine Firehouse no. 2 is seen at the center of the photo.
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