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[quote user="wanswheel"] <IMG alt="" src="http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/tour/pcmo8a.gif" border=0 mce_src="http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/tour/pcmo8a.gif"> Panoramic photo <A title=http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19700/6a19700r.jpg href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19700/6a19700r.jpg" target=_blank mce_href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19700/6a19700r.jpg">http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19700/6a19700r.jpg</A> Maps <A title=http://www.phantomranch.net/ghostown/articles/moffatroad.htm href="http://www.phantomranch.net/ghostown/articles/moffatroad.htm" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.phantomranch.net/ghostown/articles/moffatroad.htm">http://www.phantomranch.net/ghostown/articles/moffatroad.htm</A> <A title=http://www.jsmatt.com/photo_album1.0.html href="http://www.jsmatt.com/photo_album1.0.html" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.jsmatt.com/photo_album1.0.html">http://www.jsmatt.com/photo_album1.0.html</A> [/quote]  wanswheel,  <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p>Thanks for posting that information.  I am amazed to find this item included in it: “Signpost #4 at 7.4 miles. There you could park and walk up an old grade to the right to arrive at possibly the only square water tower still standing in the United States. Just beyond it, Tunnel 31 is completely caved in.”     As I mentioned earlier, I recall finding a derelict rectangular box water tank along the old roadbed, on the north side, around 1972.  It was still standing fairly intact, but quite deteriorated.  It took a few minutes of contemplation to conclude that it was a water tank.  There were lots of iron rods and bolts holding it together.   I was rather surprised that it was built as a box, rather than a cylinder, and I wondered if that was a common practice on that line.About 75 feet beyond, the roadbed abruptly ended at the face of a big hill where a tunnel had apparently caved in.  There was only a hint of a tunnel portal in soft soil.  I climbed the hill and went over the top where I could see the roadbed continuing westward on the other side.  <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p>That was a long time ago, and I have since wondered what I was looking at.  I would guess that the water tank is long gone by today.<o:p></o:p>
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