Berthoud R R Station
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Berthoud R R Station
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Appear On The Final Image.
Description
Evening view of the Berthoud, Colorado railroad station and tracks. The first railroad tracks laid across the Little Thompson Valley in 1877 helped the Colorado Central Railroad connect its line between Longmont and Cheyenne, Wyoming. At the Berthoud settlement on the Little Thompson river bottom, the company built a house for its section crew and derailed a boxcar to serve as a makeshift depot.
When it was discovered that locomotives had difficulty generating power to ascend from the river bottom, officials let it be known that the town would be relocated to higher ground or the train would no longer stop in the area. To accommodate the railroad the town was moved in the winter of 1883-84.
At the town’s new site rail sidings branched to grain elevators and a flour mill that anchored a downtown business district served by passenger and freight trains operated by the Colorado & Southern Railroad.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition.
Image copyright 2012 Jon Burch Photography
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December 30th, 2012
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