Monday, January 18, 2016

South Platte Canyon, Then and Now

This photo is from the Then and Now, Images of Colorado and the West Facebook page.


The following is the description provided by the Then and Now page:


South Platte Canyon. I have shown several photo pairs of this canyon. Most people do not have any idea where this is or that it contains so much history. Back in the late 1800's and early 1900's this was the railroad equivalent of I-70. Most of the travelers and freight in and out of the mountain's came through this canyon. It followed the Platte river out of Denver, up Waterton Canyon, followed the North Fork up past Bailey, over Kenosha Pass and on to several points beyond that. These two photos show what is called Rolling Rock curve. It is named that because of the large, round boulder above the tracks that looks like it just might roll down at any moment. William Henry Jackson took the original photo in the 1880's and mine was in 2012. 



The original photo is provided courtesy of the Denver Public Library Digital Collection.


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