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California Zephyr, Day 2

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Mid-West Gas & Grocery Store, 105 South Main Street, Fort Morgan, CO

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The Suncor Energy refinery, Brighton Boulevard, Commerce City, CO

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About 5 miles southwest of here is Aurora, a suburb of Denver. While we were asleep on the train 600 miles further west and 16 hours later, James Holmes entered the Century 16 Cinema in Aurora, killed 12 people and injured 58 others. News story 1. News story 2. News story 3. Wikipedia: the crime and murderer bio.

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Big 10 Curve

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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.

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Looking back to Denver and the curves we have just negotiated.

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Plasser und Theurer seem to have the European monopoly on ballast tamping and similar track maintenance equipment. Plasser American probably also have a monopoly.

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Blue Mountain Estates, looking like a typical Alpine village, seen from here.

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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

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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.

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Volunteer park rangers provide a narrative between Denver and Grand Junction

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Works gang

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Fraser - Winter Park, CO

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Gore Canyon

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Gore Canyon through which we are about to pass is seen in the in distance

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Gore Canyon ?

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Grand Junction

Clifton

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It took half an hour with Google maps and street view but I am confident that the map links on this image point to the building in the foreground. View is looking northwest.

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California Zephyr, Day 3

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Reno, Nevada

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Incredibly, as recently as 2005, the railroad through Reno crossed eleven downtown streets on the level - full story. Here we see Lake Street and Evans Avenue crossing over the railroad.

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Poor quality - train decided to move just at the moment of shooting

California

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https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/67652868

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View out of the rear of the train.

Truckee

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California 2012 itinerary

San Francisco Railway Museum
Phillips, Spallas, and Angstadt, LLP., Three Embarcadero Center, Suite 550; Phone: 415-278-9400 - contact Cormac Fawsitt, see my user talk
Temperance Flat Dam - no photo
Yosemite
Mono Lake
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
Yorba Linda Friends Church - no photo
Business Expo Center - no photo
Morningside Hospital - no article
La Brea Tar Pits
The Haworth Institute, 436 North Bedford Drive, Suite 105; Phone: 310-273-3000 - map
Palisades del Rey - no photo

I created the above before we set off to the USA. Partly because of the unfortunate fatal accident suffered by Prospero (my tablet PC) - see ++++ - but mainly because California turned out to be much bigger than I thought, the only places on the list that we managed to visit were the last three.

San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge

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The massive pillar behind which the sun is rising looked to me like a late addition but it is part of the original design. Cables-wise the structure is two separate suspension bridges and this pillar, called the Center Anchorage corresponds to the land side anchorages at either end.

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Jason Jenkins caught this view

Griffon Hotel, Steuart Street

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Ferry Plaza

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The San Francisco Belt Railroad used to run here

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Going to collect RV

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Cabrillo Highway

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Half Moon Bay

Cameron's Restaurant & Inn

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Cabrillo Highway

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Pigeon Point Lighthouse

Waddell Bluffs

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I think these loops are a second line of defence against falling material.

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Santa Cruz

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Santa Cruz is a bit like Blackpool with palm trees. It was a Sunday and busy so we just drove straight through after seeing the recently created roundabout - a very unusual feature in the US. See this article.

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Moss Landing

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Jetty Road, Moss landing. We watched these people for at least half an hour trying to get these two horses into an horse box - they just would not go. The people were still trying when we left.

Monterey