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California Zephyr, Day 2
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
Gore Canyon ?
Grand Junction
Clifton
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.
California Zephyr, Day 3
Reno, Nevada
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.
Poor quality - train decided to move just at the moment of shooting
California
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View out of the rear of the train.
Truckee
California 2012 itinerary
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
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.
Jason Jenkins caught this view
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