Nostalgia & History > Westbound via Tennessee Pass

Here are a few pix from the way back when machine.  The first is a private photo stop at the Hanging Bridge....I was the only passenger west of Pueblo and the conductor asked me if I wanted to stop....1966.  The next two pix were in 1990 and 1991, the first just west of Salida, the second entering the Tennessee Pass tunnel.

JBWX

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And here is an eastbound chase, all in September 1991.  Leaving Mintern, passing Beldon, and eastbound in the Arkansas Valley.

JBWX

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Do you wanna stop?     Hell ya

Old Rio grande RR Denver based passenger  train crews worked to and from Salida, CO.  Poeblo, CO engine crews worked to and from Salida, CO.

Nice shots!

RC Lundgren
Elgin, TX

Those are amazing.

Nathan

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Terrific series!

JG

John: your ride in 1966.  Did the run end in Salida and turn and go back?

It ended at Salida.  If I remember correctly (always a question these days) we had a sleeper off the DZ that we set out at Colorado Springs.  Beyond there it was a single coach and a baggage car.  I was really surprised when the conductor asked me if I wanted them to make the photo stop at hanging bridge.  From Salida I apparently made a bus connection to Alamosa.

JBWX

 

Super set - Your photo one with the PA is a beauty.
Bob

jbwest Wrote:
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> It ended at Salida.  If I remember correctly
> (always a question these days) we had a sleeper
> off the DZ that we set out at Colorado Springs.
>  Beyond there it was a single coach and a baggage
> car.  I was really surprised when the conductor
> asked me if I wanted them to make the photo stop
> at hanging bridge.  From Salida I apparently made
> a bus connection to Alamosa.
>
> JBWX


I was thinking by 1966 the DZ connection was Trailways, grande probably wanted to make the case the train was  a loser, so revenue didn't help?  Or was it Lou Menk or both
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Thanks. Arkansas Valley: Wow!

Spectacular shots!
Randy

Wonderful stuff!!! Thank you for sharing your shots.

Great photos!  It is mind boggling that anyone even considered putting a railroad through the bottom of the Gorge.  - Eric B.