The Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad (LC&S) B-4-R steam locomotive with a snow plow.
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The Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad (LC&S) B-4-R steam locomotive with a snow plow.
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The history of #641.
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641, retired in all its glory.
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The Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad's #1714 diesel.
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The LC&S #1714.
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The Catholic church in Leadville, Colorado is the highest steeple in the United States since Leadville is 10,000 feet in elevation.
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A view of the Continental Divide from the Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad tracks.
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LC&S's #1918 sits on siding.
Over a grade of 4% we have climbed quite high above the valley just outside of Leadville. The road runs north to Copper Mountain and Interstate 70, an east-west road through the Rockies that will take you over the continental divide.
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The Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad water tower.
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A copse of aspen trees in fall foilage colors.
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We stopped at this point after riding for one and one half hours. The track ahead is not safe. Up to this point we were pushed by the diesel lok. On the way back the engine pulled the train.
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The way back we stopped at the LC&S's water tower where I started my ride in the cab with the engineer (as we say in the States) or the driver (the term used in some European countries).
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Since leaving Leadvillewe have climbed 840 feet.
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One of the Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad tourist cars. They are quite comfortable.
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I am about to climb up into the cab.
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A view from the cab of the Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad's right of way.
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A straight run at this point.
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One of the many curves on the LC&S RR.
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Quite a bit of rock had to be blasted to create this railroad which was used to haul molybdenum from a mine 25 miles down the track near Copper Mountain. The mine is now closed.
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There were a number of these "S" curves.
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We increased our speed slightly on the straight runs.
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Through the window of the cab.
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Riding through the aspens was a very pretty sight.
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The engineer at the controls.
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I was suprised how relatively simple the controls were.
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The controls.
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Coming back into Leadville.
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The last switch before the station..
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The doorway to the cab.
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The end of the line with very little track to spare - no bumper.
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