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            Home is where the golden high lights are! Boy, talk about a high country hideout! Butch and Sundance had nuttin' like this in Brown's Park. These high country bangaloes may turn true green soon enough; the usual drunken American teens have already wrecked this housing. The hillside above shouts Rocky Mountains, not to mention autumn. A fellow would have to survey what is left in the bare of winter. Apparently an earlier marksman found the stove pipe and plinked it with a 22. Watch out if you were on the hill behind the house at the time. Ahhh! Mariah Butina's NRA free carry rights. Should NRA work to match Russian rights? HA! 

This new series is not a replay of last year with new edits, I can always sneak out more edits of last year's work any time but not now. In later September, (it seems a world away) eDDie and Olivia grabbed me and zipped up Boulder Canyon eventually to old and new haunts. This series is from this autumn's captures. As a haunted series, it may include more houses, unseen. These are once again at and near the Moffat tunnel through the Great Divide. (Play Kate Wolf's "Across the Great Divide" on YouToob - all the music is already there for you and me) The housing will show up again when the leaves are gone but will you be there? More than that, how will I manage a lot more fall excursions next year AND get lost up there too? 

The employees and Station Agent (another movie title) for the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel had short walks to work. The D&RGW RR (Dangerous & Rapidly Growing Worse RR) provided housing for him, his family and other crews allowing short walks to work. I have no idea why someone would need to drive this track to their house instead of walking the equivilent of a half a block. Otherwise, I can imagine stumbling around in the deep snow after the night shift, especially looking for that bottle that was stashed on the way to work. I bet that bottle would never freeze, being antifreeze itself! "Pure stategery," according to Boy George and all other Englishly-challenged. Boy, is Trump making Boy George look like an Einstein! I could recognize nothing of Papa George from his recent tributes. Could they find nearly enough hate to go around? Talk about Chief of Staff, he needs Stormy Daniels to sit in on his staff! 

D&RGW used to operate the tunnel and the big coal mines (before being taken over by the Koch Bros) near Somerset and Paonia on the Western Slope even though it was D&SL RR (Denver &  Salt Lake RR) that inspired the tunnel after years of winter snow fighting campaigns over the Hill Division on the Continental Divide. See my recent Rollins Pass series. Coal shipments will be taking a major hit if we want to come even close to global warming commitments. Denverites were always envious of Southern Wyoming and wanted their own transcontinental route to fuel its growth. D & SL RR operated the big standard gauge Mallets over to the Western Slope and ran many trains over the divide. This shack was a curiosity probably built to accompany the tunnel. It sat in a meadow to the north side of the portal and it caught my eye. My walk turned back toward the portal so I figure it was probably used for the crews that operated the portal in the early days before total automation and all the Magic Underwear shipments to Salt Lake blessed by the Holy Ghost. The crew probably would be ill advised to tip a few before heading home, especially at night! I wonder how soggy the meadow got in the past years.

Taken on: September 22, 2018

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