Tenderfoot Mountain (Salida, Colo.)
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Trees on Tenderfoot Mountain are alive and well when this photograph was taken March 20, 1895. They began dying shortly after the smelter opened – upwind – in 1902, and by 1917 there were almost none left. Two foot paths up the mountain were used by hundreds of visitors who wanted to get a view of the city while they waited to change trains. The mountain was a favorite picnic spot for locals as well.
The Denver & Rio Grande Depot, F Street...
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The depot and railyard, viewed from across the Arkansas River, near where Riverside Park is located today.
Alice Chinn Collection.
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All 27 roundhouse tracks and nearly half of the Salida roundhouse itself, are visible in this photograph, taken sometime between 1890 and 1892. Nearly half of the stalls carry four rails to handle both gauges. The 62-foot turntable was used until 1909, when it was replaced with an 80-foot model. Moving counter-clockwise from the roundhouse lead nearest the photographer, the following locomotives are visible:
• narrow-gauge Engine 62, a Baldwin...
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As many as 100 trains a day passed through Salida – and sometimes there were 15 or more passenger trains. That was apparently the case on this day in 1884. The coaches on the far track are awaiting wash jobs before returning to service. Tenderfoot Mountain is visible in the distance.
Ernest Brownson Collection.
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The Art Moderne Style D & RG Railroad Depot was built in the 1940s and torn down in 1985.
Bob Rush Collection.
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The Art Moderne Style D & RG Railroad Depot was built in the 1940s and torn down in 1985.
This photograph is from the 1981 Architectural Inventory streetscapes.
