Nostalgia & History > Glenwood Springs, Colorado

The town of Glenwood Springs is to get a new Grand Avenue Bridge.  Gone is the Colorado Midland, the Aspen Branch of Denver and Rio Grande, and the 1903 Doirg steel two span skewed truss railroad bridge.  The rail yards at Funston have been moved across the Colorado River and the Union Pacific crosses the Roaring Fork River and follows the route of the Colorado Midland west out of town.  Interstate 70 Highway crosses under the Grand Avenue Bridge just west of the swimming pool. 
 
There are pictures of the building of the bridge in today’s Glenwood Springs Post Independent. 
 
http://www.postindependent.com/news/local/bridges-begin-to-take-shape
 
There are pictures that can be enlarged to very large pictures on the website,
 
https://www.codot.gov/projects/sh82grandavenuebridge/project-photos
 
Picture 1 is from the Denver Public Library website, Call Number
 
http://digital.denverlibrary.org
 
Picture 1, “GB-8458.  Title: Glenwood Springs.  Creator(s): Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935.  Summary: View over Glenwood Springs, in the broad valley of the Grand (Colorado) River, Garfield County, Colorado includes the Hotel Colorado, facilities for the Denver and Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland, State Road 82 viaduct, business district, and a two span skewed truss bridge. The new Rio Grande yard and helper engine terminal with a long elevated locomotive coaling trestle and eight stall roundhouse shows at riverbend.  Date: [Summer 1912].” 
 

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Glenwood Springs, CO, Grand Avenue Bridge was built 2017-2018 and now is fully operational.

Photo shows Rocky Mountaineer with UP 7985 East under the completed Grand Avenue Bridge at Glenwood Springs, CO, 24 June 2021.


flynn Wrote:
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> The town of Glenwood Springs is to get a new Grand
> Avenue Bridge.  
>  
> There are pictures of the building of the bridge
> in today’s Glenwood Springs Post Independent. 
>  
> http://www.postindependent.com/news/local/bridges-
> begin-to-take-shape
>  
> There are pictures that can be enlarged to very
> large pictures on the website,

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