"Where in North America?" --- Section IX

[Mark Sedenquist]

(photo by Peter Thody)

That box construction in the superstructure of the suspension arch looks very similar to a famous arch in West Virginia -- but clearly, the topography is different. I have the sense I've seen this bridge before -- like maybe around one of the dams on the Colorado... Maybe a hint is needed?

Mark

[CalOldBlue]

Highway 93 bridge near Twin Falls, ID?

That looks like lava, not sandstone.

[Peter Thody]

Yes, it's the Perrine Bridge, just outside Twin Falls, Idaho. As well as being a spectacular construction in its own right, it's also a destination for BASE jumpers.

Peter

[Mark Sedenquist]

What is this train doing on this siding? And where is this?

(Photo by Gerald Thurman)

Time to bring this one forward again -- good job about the Snake River bridge identification!

Mark

[Mark Sedenquist]

As well as being a spectacular construction in its own right, it's also a destination for BASE jumpers.

In that video -- it sure looks like the second jumper very nearly hit the water before his chute deployed...

mark

[Foy]

Time to bring this one forward again -- good job about the Snake River bridge identification!

Mark

Reckon I'll take a stab at this one. If it's way south of Glenwood Springs, that puts in the territory of the Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge line between Durango and Silverton, CO. I'd say the siding is part of a switchback where the train runs forward and back for switchbacks rather then a loop trestle or a too-tight radius curve. There are a number of trestle loops and "front to back" switchbacks among Rocky Mountain railroads. One I intend to see next summer it the Gilmore & Pittsburgh's switchback + tunnel at Bannock Pass, MT/ID.

Foy

[Mark Sedenquist]

If it's way south of Glenwood Springs, that puts in the territory of the Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge line

This part is correct -- Certainly this kind of train, perhaps even this one, worked daily on the Denver & Rio Grande (D&RG) Narrow Gauge Railway -- but it is not the section between Durango and Silverton.... Care to revise your geo-guess?

Hint #2a (because Foy supplied Hint #2) -- This train was restored to the condition they would have been in 1940.

Mark

[glc]

It's in Black Canyon of the Gunnison.

[Mark Sedenquist]

The train is located behind the Cimarron Visitors Center in Curecanti National Recreational Area. It is exhibited in Cimarron Canyon where it would have worked many years on Denver & Rio Grande (D&RG) Narrow Gauge Railway.

As you can see from the NPS photo (see the link above) there is no fence around the exhibit but it is located on a section of track on a trestle and it is hard to get up to without serious climbing and scaling....

It's a very unusual display to say the least!

Mark

(and you didn't even need to see the color of the dirt to ID this one... Amazing!)

[CalOldBlue]

What is this, where is it, where did it come from?


Photo: Don Casey