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The Midland Terminal Railroad Depot, located on Granite Avenue in Victor, Colorado. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The following is part of KRCC s Peak Past essay series.
Some roads are too good to go away. Or maybe they’re too tough to die. Like the Midland.
The Colorado Midland Railway was born in 1883. If you’ve ever headed west on U.S. Highway 24, you’ve followed the same route as the first standard gauge railroad built over the Continental Divide. The Midland ran from Colorado Springs out to Leadville, on to Grand Junction. The full line was up by 1890.
Peak Past is a weekly segment written and voiced by Matt Cavanaugh Ph.D, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and Senior Fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. Cavanaugh is a resident of Manitou Springs where he lives with his wife and two young children.
The following is part of KRCC s Peak Past essay series.
If history is the study of what came before, a mud print makes a fine artifact.
Especially in the Spring.
Winter’s last blasts are past (hopefully), and those first little green shoots are pushing out of the soil. The wet ground makes a perfect canvas for dirty paw prints.
Recently, my daughter and I found an animal track out by a stream near the Arkansas River headwaters. I don’t know anything about animal tracks, so we hit the books. We picked up a field guide that would help us tell marmots from magpies. The print we found was big, 4-inches by 4-inches. We’d seen coyotes near there, around Leadville, but our guide said coyotes leave smaller prints, and so the print we saw was likely a big dog, but also could possibly have been a wolf.
Lots of rain and snow overnight but most of that snow is melting
KOAA Weather
and last updated 2021-05-11 08:28:03-04
Rain and snow hit southern Colorado big Monday into early Tuesday morning.
CDOT
While most of the region will have seen at least some snow flakes overnight, most of that snow is melting on warm ground.
Most road conditions overnight, according to CDOT, were wet in the lower elevations and slushy in some of the mountains.
Sam Schreier
Gold Hill Mesa
Early Tuesday morning I measured 1.5 inches on elevated surfaces at Gold Hill Mesa and only around 1 inch at our KOAA Rockrimmon Studio.
Janiva Magness will headline Octoberâs Blues on the Mesa, featuring Grammy winner Alvin Youngblood Hart and others. Paul Moore
Amy Whitesell and her husband George have been staples of the Colorado Springs blues community for nearly two decades. In 2003, Amy was one of the founders of the nonprofit
Pikes Peak Blues Community, which supports blues and American roots music along the Front Range. In 2006, she parted ways with them to start her own company with George, and thatâs when
A Music Company Inc. was born.
Since then, theyâve brought in tons of national touring blues artists such as