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Hawarden Bridge Station looking to Shotton Station with the bridge over the River Dee in the middle.
Overlooked by the Matlock landmark of Riber Castle Bulleid pacific 'Lord Dowding' restarts the 'Peak Forester' onto Peak Rail metals and on to Rowsley.
Looking out more photos from my day in Dungeness. This is a variation of an earlier photo...from a lower viewpoint.
A pick 'em up sticks railroad is not gonna work! The Lyons branch must be a fairly valuable enough line to support a single train west and east daily. The line rails have been replaced and re-ballasted but I doubt the 8mph speed limit has changed considering it still looks squirelly. I am sure that Madison Avenue convinced the original company to add Pacific to their name, Denver, Utah & Pacific, no matter what their goal. The name was an advertising pitch suckees used to sell bonds to suckers. Boy I am glad they have reinvented the concept as derivatives, investments to suckers! Like Ireland, Iceland, Spain and Greece. The route came up well short of the Pacific and a tad short of Utah to boot and ended up at Lyons, Colorado a few miles down the line. Perhaps you could survey a RR route to Utah (or the Pacific) and that would surely be an interesting RR line; check the Continental Divide in the distance. Longs Peak is over 14,000 feet. This was shot recently and I thought I would add it to my branch route history.
This turn out, left, still exists and leads to a defunct siding just off the branch line west to Lyons now used daily by the Burlington (earlier Burlington & Missouri River) rock train. The switch mechanism and switch points were still in evidence at the turn out. This was an extension of the Denver, Longmont and Northwestern narrow gauge built by the Denver, Utah & Pacific. There were two quarry branches and the remaining cement plant spurs at Lyons. It's possible the GW RR used the siding even though they were east across town. I assume that the spur down the line serviced nearby industrial/agricultural sites.
Somewhere along here, I assume the old grade of the Longmont, Middle Park & Pacific from Longmont headed directly toward Left Hand Canyon and the foothills to the west of the highway north from Boulder, Colorado was located. I have never found it other than well west of town. Obviously, they fell a bit short of their goal of the Pacific Ocean. They fell short of their goal of Middle Park, Colorado which would have entailed an impossible crossing of the Continental Divide. And it fell short of its goal of Jamestown (and/or Ward), Colorado. The grading did achieve the Left Hand River Valley and through the very best fortune, rails were never laid on the grade. The canyons uphill from Jamestown are a choice of bad and much worse grades. They lost just a fraction of what they easily could have. Another grade that never saw rails to Longmont was the Denver & Pacific that claimed a junction in north Denver that was subsequently fought over by other rights of way.
Each year in December the Golden Spike National Park (named a National Park during the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike) hosts a steam event with the replicas of the locomotives form the wedding of the rails. This year the Central Pacific engine the Jupiter rolls eastward with steam and smoke.
This photo was taken at the Muttenz freight yard.
It captures the soothing artificial illumination of our industry and the calm loneliness from the night.
Now on the Westland Branch, Wheeling & Lake Erie 643 rolls alongside the Montour Trail in absolute garbage weather as they approach the crossing at Gelati Road in Hickory, PA. July 11th, 2020.
Enjoying a flight of beer at Stacked Deck Brewing in downtown St Paul, Minnesota while a Metro Green Line train passes outside on Cedar Street.
Here is a cool shot from Titlow Park in Tacoma, WA. Looking down the rails at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and through the trees.
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