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As requested, here are a few more images from one of my on-line albums:
An aerial view of the Royal Gorge suspension bridge - alt. 1100 ft. above the river. Note the tiny tracks below!
A different aerial view of the Gorge.
The Gorge before the bridge:
Old postcard view of the Royal Gorge train:
Old photo of the Royal Gorge and Hanging Bridge:
The funicular down to an area just above the hanging bridge:
The normal state of the Gorge river - a stage 5 rapids and extremely dangerous.
Paralleling the east end of the Gorge, these are the old tunnels dug by convict labor to bring water to the northern part of Canon City. Unfortunately, the blaster miscalculated and blew out the windows and cracked walls at St. Scholastica Girls Academy, several miles away, causing the project to be dropped before completion.
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I think that postcard view was in a book I had in childhood (and still have!). Always wanted to go but never knew just where it was.
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"An aerial view of the Royal Gorge suspension bridge - alt. 1100 ft. above the river. Note the tiny tracks below! "
Just for the sake of perspective -----
1100' If accurately modeled in HO, is 12' , 7- 23/32".......deep man,.......real deep.
That really is some spectacular country there, makes the ocean, in the teeth of a gale, seem like "flatland".
( and being on the ocean, in the teeth of a gale, didn't even feel like "flatland" )
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Thanks for sharing with some great pictures....great clarity.
We have some people talking about trying to model the Royal Gorge at our club. That may change their mind when I tell them it takes over 12' 7" to model the gorge to an accurate HO depth.
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Mountain Man......in N Scale we would be ok.....our building has 10' ceilings.....the N Scale gorge is ONLY 6' 10 1/2". We have three feet to spare and get our wiring in under the gorge.
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MountainMan Wrote:Still a duanting proposition!
------------------Or, at the least, an "engorged" undertaking.
Yup, I said it!
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As beautiful as I remember. Thank you for sharing.
Another nice perspective is in an open gondola car. I didn't see one in the consist. Do they still use it?
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FiatFan Wrote:As beautiful as I remember. Thank you for sharing.
Another nice perspective is in an open gondola car. I didn't see one in the consist. Do they still use it?
Tom
They do - it was the next to last car.