The next segment of this article is now in place. As with the other parts, it can be readily accessed by means of the first page where I have set up a complete table of contents.
Good Stuff Ron, keep it coming. I’ve finally caught up. I’ve even read page 15. Its like a well researched travel log and certainly makes a person want to see it in person.
Your statements that it is hard to imagine a railroad once ran through there and it was a major railorad town, is something that can be expressed through out this Nation, it is basically evolution and progress. Even if the railroad is still running down the same path, as equipment changed from steam or electric to diesel, the path has been destroyed or extremly altered.
Sometimes, I think isolated property or property turned in to a park is better perserved than where civilizations have just advanced and reused the railroad property for industry, roads or housing. When this happens, almost all traces of the history is destroyed. The dedication of writers, historians and interested individuals do great service by putting their knowledge and the stories they have learned from others down on paper or now computer files.
Thank you for your energies.
Ric Golding said:
Good Stuff Ron, keep it coming. I've finally caught up. I've even read page 15. Its like a well researched travel log and certainly makes a person want to see it in person.Your statements that it is hard to imagine a railroad once ran through there and it was a major railorad town, is something that can be expressed through out this Nation, it is basically evolution and progress. Even if the railroad is still running down the same path, as equipment changed from steam or electric to diesel, the path has been destroyed or extremly altered.
Sometimes, I think isolated property or property turned in to a park is better perserved than where civilizations have just advanced and reused the railroad property for industry, roads or housing. When this happens, almost all traces of the history is destroyed. The dedication of writers, historians and interested individuals do great service by putting their knowledge and the stories they have learned from others down on paper or now computer files.
Thank you for your energies.
I have to agree with your sentiment. It is the relative isolation of Kennecott which saved most of it–that part which was not already destroyed by human scavengers. This ghost town is now within the National Park Service system.
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I finally had the chance to finish reading what’s posted to date. Good stuff!! I love the pictures. This is such a beautiful part of the world. I hope to get there to see it for myself some day.
Thanks for your efforts Ron - I’m off to catch up n your latest in Phase I.
Jon
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