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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
I'm thinking Colorado, Utah or the Sierra mountains of California. This seems pretty high altitude 5000+ feet In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Hint for the evening "canvas doors". No, not a trolley car. The nearest city that might have used trolley cars was several hours away by train. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Hint for the evening "canvas doors". There were mining camps and summer tourist resorts, but the trestle was not abandoned because any of them were closed. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Is it East of the Mississippi? No, it is West of the Mississippi. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I'm thinking Colorado, Utah or the Sierra mountains of California. This seems pretty high altitude 5000+ feet Yes, it is in one of those areas. Yes, it is above 5000 feet. BOINC WIKI |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
I'm thinking Colorado, Utah or the Sierra mountains of California. This seems pretty high altitude 5000+ feet You already said "NO' to Utah and California, so that leaves Colorado. Pike's Peak area? Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I'm thinking Colorado, Utah or the Sierra mountains of California. This seems pretty high altitude 5000+ feet I was wondering if someone would do the subtraction. Yes, it is in Colorado. Pikes Peak is too far South. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
OK, for some more hints: There is an Iron Horse, an Eagle, a Pioneer, an Eskimo, and a March Hare nearby. James is close, and Evan is not too far away. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Hint of the evening: No nibbles, so I will add some more 11000 feet 11160 feet 11660 feet and 4% BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get to heaven. On that RR, going westbound, the camel would pass through the eye of the needle before the rich man got to heaven, anyway. BOINC WIKI |
weasel Send message Joined: 5 Apr 00 Posts: 5 Credit: 82,327,910 RAC: 906 |
did this site become a dam or resivor and now underwater or filled with water? |
weasel Send message Joined: 5 Apr 00 Posts: 5 Credit: 82,327,910 RAC: 906 |
I have three questions about this one. What is it (should be very easy)? Where is it (be very specific please)? Why is it abandoned (might be kind of difficult)? This is a photo of the Rollins Pass Trestle which was the highest railroad pass in America. Specifically Riflesight Notch. Beneath the trestle was Tunnel 33 which has collasped and is no longer actually visible. It is located between mile posts 231 and 232 off Highway 40 south of downtown Winter Park, Colorado It was abandoned because of numerous tunnel collaspes and fires which destroyed the snow sheds on the sides of the tunnels. |
weasel Send message Joined: 5 Apr 00 Posts: 5 Credit: 82,327,910 RAC: 906 |
To be more specific on location. Riflesight Notch, Nederland, CO N39 53 56.93 W105 42 28.99 |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
did this site become a dam or resivor and now underwater or filled with water? No. I have taken a very similar picture very recently. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I have three questions about this one. You are slightly wrong about why it was abandoned, but you have the location perfect. It was abandoned for all of those reasons, but it was kept running until the replacement was built. The Moffat tunnel is 6 miles long and tunnels under James Peak to the north of Corona (the high point of Rollins Pass). In addition, there was a great deal of trouble keeping the track open in winter due to the deep snow at 11660 feet elevation at the top of the pass. The trestle at rifle site notch is at 11160 feet and the photographer is standing at about 11000 feet elevation. The maximum grade on the line was 4$. The grade out of Denver is 3$ to 4% for 35 miles. The Engineers called it hell hill for the conditions in the cab after keeping the train moving up this grade for several hours against a wide open throttle (hence the reference to the firemans shovel). The first winter while the Winter Park side was under construction was fairly bad, and reprovisioning trains were prevented from reaching the track crew by dozens of feet of snow in the pass. The track crew would have starved if it had not been for the efforts of the people of Winter Park that got wagon loads of food up to them. It was still a pretty grim winter. The eye of the needle tunnel is a mile or two down the East side of the pass. The eye of the needle is currently in the process of collapse, and is closed to traffic. Corona is the highest main line RR ever built and operated in the continental US. The Moffat tunnel has a ventilation system capable of coping with the smoke and steam from a string of coal fired engines. There is a big fan at the Denver end of the tunnel, and to keep the air from just blowing back out of the near end it is covered by canvas doors that open 8 seconds before the train exits the tunnel. Occasionally they would not open in time, and the canvas toors did no damage to the entines. Most of the names listed in one of my hints are ski runs across the valley in the winter park ski resort. James refers to James Peak, and Evan refers to Evans Peak some 30 or 40 miles to the south (where we had the picture of the observatory). Take it away weasel. BOINC WIKI |
weasel Send message Joined: 5 Apr 00 Posts: 5 Credit: 82,327,910 RAC: 906 |
Well not to be rude or anything but I just don't have the time to play the game so I will allow you to give my turn to another worthy player. Thanks for the pleasure of the chase but just don't have the right amount of time to come up with a good photo and keep the questions answered. Thanks again. |
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