Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I tried to get up and over Boreas earlier this year, but the Pass was clsoed. Wide open today. This road used to be a train track; the route to Breckenridge from Denver and the east. Beginning of the pass... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Stopped for some piccies and a drink and was joined by this guy... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Cresting the Pass, the old Station House comes into view.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Built in 1880, this is where the train workers spent the night during their trek westward... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 We're at 12,000'-ish above sea level here. Nice and cool as well as beautiful... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 I swear to God, the last time I was here there was a train car sitting on these now empty tracks. That was about a year ago. Have no idea where it went. Probably those fuckin' gypsys - they'll steal anything! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 About 5 miles down the hill from the Station House is the water tank... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 The view from up here ain't bad at all... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 10 miles later...... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 The views across the valley are of Breckenridge Ski Resort - you can see the ski runs carved out of the woods... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 At the western bottom of the Pass are a steam engine and other cars used on Boreras. Quite the snow shovel on the first car... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Making a big loop to turn back north to get home and I pass the Fairplay School in Fairplay, CO... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 100 miles later and I'm passing through what used to a be a town called Tarryall. The Tarryall School, built in 1898, is slightly more spartan than Fairp[lay's school... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Old homestead cabin in Tarryall.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Old farm across the street. Who knew that they had caravans back then? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Some more of Tarryall's best and finest homes... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 A couple of open range pics. One thing we have here is open land. Lots and lots of open land... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 One last ranch home in Tarryall before I head out... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Couple of hours later and I'm home. A pic of our abandoned railway station here in Black Hawk... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Route... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Some pics from last year when I was up there on my XR. Knew there was a box car up there! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Brilliant @Earache.........and you got a train in there too! I'm still hunting for one! And I'm always amazed at how all the buildings are wooden. You don't see that here.......they'd probably all burst into flames in the Summer! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 6 hours ago, XTreme said: Brilliant @Earache.........and you got a train in there too! I'm still hunting for one! And I'm always amazed at how all the buildings are wooden. You don't see that here.......they'd probably all burst into flames in the Summer! Mos tof these places were probably built by one or two guys with limited tools. So wood was probably the easiest and most plentiful materials available. There were no towns to go to get help, stone mason s, etc. So wood it was. The train station in Black Hawk is all brick, as most of the town's buildings are brick / stone - but labor to build them was available here in the big city. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 I should do a train thread - every freakin' town here has at least one or two old steam loco's sitting on rails in their town center. Our small town has at least 2-3 of them. Here's one from Idaho Springs - next town over from ours.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 That's a nice steam locomotive there, in front of that train 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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