That's cool. I hopped freight trains from Wells, NV via Ogden, Salt Lake City, and Grand Junction to Denver in 1973. The trip from Glenwood Springs and up through Rifle to Winter Park to the West Portal of the Moffett Tunnel had stunning views. So stunning while sitting with my legs dangling off the edge of the opening of the box car, I looked and pulled them in just in time to not lose them before entering the tunnel. I took a deep breath to keep from breathing the diesel exhaust...30 seconds, a minute, a minute and a half and I had to give up. It was a long stinky trip through that tunnel to the East Portal.
I grew up i Gilpin County and spent a lot of my childhood exploring the old railroad. Lots of hiking to the many lakes from the road and driving over the trestles past the tunnel. We used the old stagecoach road after the closing of Needles Eye tunnel. Soon after the forest service closed that road and made travel over Rollins Pass impossible by 4WD. It's still a great area to explore.
Great work!!! I really enjoyed this. My father and I just took the zephyr and have been looking up all the stuff along the way. A trip to the needle might be in our futures!
Despite the overpopulation in the cost of living in Colorado I'm so very timted at moving back there and just traveling around the Rockies, I lived there from 1978 to 2009 now my step dad he's in his late 80s Colorado native end descendant of many pioneers from the early eighteen hundreds of Colorado the meaning of them worked on a Colorado railroad as well as many of the gold mines still a beautiful fascinating place and a lot that has not been discovered or destroyed yet thank God
That's cool. I hopped freight trains from Wells, NV via Ogden, Salt Lake City, and Grand Junction to Denver in 1973. The trip from Glenwood Springs and up through Rifle to Winter Park to the West Portal of the Moffett Tunnel had stunning views. So stunning while sitting with my legs dangling off the edge of the opening of the box car, I looked and pulled them in just in time to not lose them before entering the tunnel. I took a deep breath to keep from breathing the diesel exhaust...30 seconds, a minute, a minute and a half and I had to give up. It was a long stinky trip through that tunnel to the East Portal.
Wonderful and informative. Thanks.
Thanks for the info and video. We drove up to Yankee Doodle lake yesterday. Snow drift blocked the trail further. Amazing place.
I grew up i Gilpin County and spent a lot of my childhood exploring the old railroad. Lots of hiking to the many lakes from the road and driving over the trestles past the tunnel. We used the old stagecoach road after the closing of Needles Eye tunnel. Soon after the forest service closed that road and made travel over Rollins Pass impossible by 4WD. It's still a great area to explore.
Great work!!! I really enjoyed this. My father and I just took the zephyr and have been looking up all the stuff along the way. A trip to the needle might be in our futures!
Well done, thank you.
Despite the overpopulation in the cost of living in Colorado I'm so very timted at moving back there and just traveling around the Rockies, I lived there from 1978 to 2009 now my step dad he's in his late 80s Colorado native end descendant of many pioneers from the early eighteen hundreds of Colorado the meaning of them worked on a Colorado railroad as well as many of the gold mines still a beautiful fascinating place and a lot that has not been discovered or destroyed yet thank God
EXCELENT VIDEO!🙂🙂
I wonder, how this line could ever been maintained. Mostly higher than the tree line, rockfall, snowdrift, avalanches..