Working rail roads and their tracks.

Hay Dude · Aug 4, 2021

buckeyefarmer said:
If you take rt50, say hey to my friends in gunnison. Wish I was there.

So we actually did end up having to take 50 through Gunnison to get to Pikes Peak. An amazing drive, but I had to hurry. Took 7 hours to get from Moab to Colorado Springs because of the I70 mudslides closure. Big news out here. Might be the worst rockslides in CO history. Took out the railway along 70 and plugged up part of the Colorado River, too!
We finally made it through to Pikes Peak and took the Manitou Pikes Peak Cog Railway and it was great!
They re worked the tracks and are completing a new visitors center at the Peak. It was a lot more extensive and complex than I thought. Multiple cog trains of 2 engine powered cars run at once, so sidings were built to allow passing.
The powered cars were built in Switzerland, but they are Cummins powered! How cool is that!

Heres how they rolled long ago

A view while descending

buckeyefarmer · Aug 4, 2021

Hay Dude said:
So we actually did end up having to take 50 through Gunnison to get to Pikes Peak. An amazing drive, but I had to hurry. Took 7 hours to get from Moab to Colorado Springs because of the I70 mudslides closure. Big news out here. Might be the worst rockslides in CO history. Took out the railway along 70 and plugged up part of the Colorado River, too!
We finally made it through to Pikes Peak and took the Manitou Pikes Peak Cog Railway and it was great!
They re worked the tracks and are completing a new visitors center at the Peak. It was a lot more extensive and complex than I thought. Multiple cog trains of 2 engine powered cars run at once, so sidings were built to allow passing.
The powered cars were built in Switzerland, but they are Cummins powered! How cool is that!

View attachment 708313

Heres how they rolled long ago

View attachment 708314

A view while descending

View attachment 708316

Very nice!! I was looking at it yesterday on google maps. Think it was sold out for next 2 weeks. Been to Colorado Springs twice, never up the mt, but once in.

I’ve done 550 from Durango to montrose, and rt 50 across to canon city and 115 from Colorado Springs. Taken 285 also from Denver to poncho springs, and down to monte vista. I really like 160 across southern co.

Also did the rocky mt nat park.

I want to go back.

buckeyefarmer · Aug 4, 2021

Mallet said:
Highway 50? Did you drive through Antonito, Conejos, Alamosa area? That’s where my mother grew up. Very cool road trip your on!

Drove thru alamosa a few yrs ago. I want to take the cumbres railroad sometime.

buckeyefarmer · Aug 4, 2021

My avitar pic was taken at a ranch outside gunnison.

buckeyefarmer · Aug 4, 2021

There’s a neat old train tunnel up near the top of the mountain just north of gunnison. My son went up to it one day I was riding a horse up above treeline.