Archive for September, 2022
Steamboat Springs (CO) Depot
by admin on Sep.22, 2022, under Colorado
While Lynn and I were visiting Steamboat Springs, CO, we found the old Steamboat Springs Depot. It was built in 1909 by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, but rail service ended by April of 1968, and by 1977 the building housed a theater. Union Pacific Railroad hauls coal through here today. The interior is now a beautiful art gallery and events center. They managed to make the conversion to an event center and still keep some of the great features of the depot, like the bay windows. They’ve also incorporated an amazing wall system that amounts to lots of panels hanging from the ceiling on tracks (get it!) that can be moved around to create all kinds of configurations for the room. Those are trackside hot springs in two of the photos below. The tracks are still live there today, and I did watch the signal drop from red to yellow to black; but obviously never saw the train as it was moving away from us.
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All Aboard!
The rails of a railroad track are kept shiny on the top by the regular passage of trains. Thus, "To Shiny Rails" is the battle cry of my personal effort to keep railroading activities of all kinds available to as many people as possible. It's tantamount to exclaiming "Keep those trains a rollin'!". And with any luck at all, I'll personally be on as many of those trains as possible! To shiny rails, Jamie
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