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If you know where this is, do you also know what this was?

Con

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Looks like the base of a water tank. Texas?

Water tank foundation. Maybe Texas Creek CO?

Water Tank Base..Maybe Raton NM area?

That is Texas Creek, CO, the cuts on the mountain to the left is where a branch line left heading to someplace south. That branch replaced another branch that left just west of Canon City that headed up a canyon very prone to flooding.

BNSF6400 Wrote:
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> That is Texas Creek, CO, the cuts on the mountain
> to the left is where a branch line left heading to
> someplace south. That branch replaced another
> branch that left just west of Canon City that
> headed up a canyon very prone to flooding.


BNSF6400 has gotten it. This is Texas Creek, and this is where the Westcliffe Branch line started. Back in the days of yore, this must have been a great place to watch and listen as the little mountain bred steam locos fought, snorted and churned their way up the sides of that gulch and on south to the Wet Mountains Valley.
The concrete feet are the remains of the water tank that was at Texas Creek on the mainline.

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