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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)
Secretary Blinken fist bumps a student at the graduation commencement ceremonies for the Georgetown Class of 2022 at the Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2022. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]
Colorado's Georgetown Loop Railroad, running on the former Colorado & Southern grade between Georgetown and Silver Plume, Colorado. The route follows Clear Creek and loops back over itself on the Devil's Gate Viaduct, a reproduction of the original bridge that stood in the canyon. These photos were taken in July 2025 when 2-8-0 No. 40 was the motive power.
Georgetown Lutheran Church is the oldest Lutheran congregation in Washington, DC. Thirty-Two years before the city of Washington became the capital of the nation, a Lutheran congregation was organized in Georgetown, north of the Potomac River. Its existence can be documented as early as 1769
The Fort Cornwallis Lighthouse (Malay: Rumah Api Kota Cornwallis) is in the north-eastern bastion of Fort Cornwallis, George Town, Penang, Malaysia. It is currently under the management of the Maritime Authority of Malaysia. The lighthouse was constructed by the British Malaya government in 1882 as the Fort Point Lighthouse at a cost of £10,224. In 1914-1928, the lighthouse underwent renovation and its name was changed to Penang Harbour Lighthouse. The lighthouse is made of white steel framework with a height of 21m. The light beam reaches a distance of 16 nm (29.6 km). As can be seen above, there is an adjacent large signal mast for flag hoists.
Fort Cornwallis is a bastion fort in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, built by the British East India Company in the late 18th century and is the largest standing fort in Malaysia. The fort never engaged in combat during its operational history although as can be seen above, it had plenty of cannons in revetments.
It was named after the then Lieutenant-General The 2nd Earl Cornwallis (1738-1805), the Governor-General of Bengal at the time of the fort's construction, who had also been involved in the American War of Independence, surrendering his army to George Washington at Yorktown in 1781.
In 1804, after the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars, and during Colonel R T Farquhar's term as Governor of Prince of Wales Island (also known as Penang Island), Indian convict labourers rebuilt the fort using brick and stone. Fort Cornwallis was completed in 1810, at the cost of $80,000, during Norman Macalister’s term as Governor of Penang. A moat 9m wide by 2m deep once surrounded the fort but it was filled in the 1920s due to a malaria outbreak in the area.
Even though the fort was originally built for the British military, its function, historically, was more administrative than defensive. For example, the judge of the Supreme Court of Penang, Sir Edmond Stanley, an Anglo-Irish barrister, was first housed at Fort Cornwallis when the court opened on 31 May 1808. During the 1920s Sikh police of the Straits Settlements occupied the fort.
Royal Navy personnel under the direction of Revd Peter Brown conducted an archaeological survey in July/August 1970. The fort was gazetted on 8 September 1977, under the Antiquities Act 168/1976, as an Ancient Monument and Historic site. Today it is part of the George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The view above looks from the north-western bastion slightly south of east along the northern ramparts of the fort. Scanned from a slide taken by a relative during a visit in 1971.
The mountains above the town which is a tourist destination that includes a train that through the mountain gap.
He is one of the fishermen from one of the few small fishing communities in the heart of Georgetown. I usually see him around 7:30-8:30 am, catching crabs and fishes from his boat. Hope to get a better shot of him someday.
A view of the Georgetown Boathouse along the Potomac River and Georgetown University from Key Bridge, which connects Virginia and Washington D.C.
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A RDC runs west toward Guelph, Kitchener and London, while the CN main comes up from the Hamilton area, and merges
HDR panorama of Georgetown Washington DC taken from the Key Bridge.
Post by Stephen Ball Photography.
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Here is a shot of the Georgetown Volkswagen dealership at night.. I was driving by the other night and couldn't resist... plus they give great service. I am a customer :)