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California Zephyr, Day 2
Big 10 Curve
The "Big 10 Curve" west of Arvada, a Denver suburb. Winds can be so strong in this area that hopper cars welded to the rails and filled with sand sit on an adjacent track to act as a windbreak.
Looking back to Denver and the curves we have just negotiated.
Plasser und Theurer seem to have the European monopoly on ballast tamping and similar track maintenance equipment. Plasser American probably also have a monopoly.
Blue Mountain Estates, looking like a typical Alpine village, seen from
here.
Taken from
about here, I thought I was taking the
Rocky Flats Plant (read about different Federal agencies doing battle with each other) but in fact this an unidentified gravel or cement works. The Rocky Flats Plant was about a mile to the southeast and very little trace no remains.
Rockies
Gross Dam and Reservoir. Water supply for Denver. Most of the rain falls on the west of the Rockies and Denver is on the east so various water capture points on the west lead water through a tunnel and to this reservoir.
Volunteer park rangers provide a narrative between Denver and Grand Junction
Works gang
Fraser - Winter Park, CO
Gore Canyon
Gore Canyon through which we are about to pass is seen in the in distance
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