Nostalgia & History > Grande 30's in Glenwood Canyon 1982

Deep in Colorado's Glenwood Canyon a trio of GP30's lead an eb train back when the Canyon stretch was just two-lanes and the completion of I-70 through the Canyon was a number of years in the future. Took this shot on April 15, 1982.

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 I don't know what the normal river level is, but it sure looks close to the track roadbed..

If memory and my one trip to the area serves me correctly there is a dam just to the right of the photo so the water level may regularly be that high.

GP30Frank Wrote:
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>  I don't know what the normal river level is, but
> it sure looks close to the track roadbed..

Spring runoff of the mountain snowpack contributes to the water level, but you are correct, it is quite close. There are a number of articles about flooding in the Canyon that can be found through a Google search, including at least one that I read, that offered that climate change is causing the runoff to now occur earlier than the 'normal' Spring runoff.

That'll be correct just as soon as it quits snowing.

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callum_out Wrote:
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> That'll be correct just as soon as it quits
> snowing.
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> Out

yup, A-Basin ski area is still open

There is a dam to the right in this picture, it feeds the hydro-electric plant to the West, once past the dam the water level was always much lower, this dam backed it up quite a way's