Colorado Marine Officer

Posts Tagged ‘Leadville’

Although locomotives on this line sport old-fashioned cowcathers the car are anything but old,And it’s a good thing, because the route follows the old lines developed by several other defunct railroad, begining in leadville, the highest incorporated city in the United States, and reaching up into the continental devide through hairpin turns along the upper arkansas Vallery. Prepare for glorious, if intermitten, views of mount Elbert, colorado’s highest peak at 14,440 feet.