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Posted: 25 Feb 2012

Taken: 30 Jun 2011

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Bird sculpture, with flood

Bird sculpture, with flood
Yampa River, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA. During the high-water year of 2011.
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Yes, the Denver & Rio Grande arrived in 1909. The tracks now evidently belong to the Union Pacific. Passenger service stopped in 1968, though. Unfortunately, construction of the railroad destroyed the "chugging" spring that gave the town its name! No environmental impact statements in those days--
Here's the Wikipedia writeup:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_and_Rio_Grande_Western_Railroad#Merger_with_Southern_Pacific
10 years ago.

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