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The Lariat Loop: An Engineering Marvel at Texas Creek

The Lariat Loop: An Engineering Marvel at Texas Creek

By Mike Rosso on July 1, 2016
A view of the Texas Creek bridge and a D&R.G.R.R. passenger train climbing up towards Inspiration Point for the trip to Westcliffe, circa 1890s. Courtesy of the Denver Public Library.
A view of the Texas Creek bridge and a D&R.G.R.R. passenger train climbing up towards Inspiration Point for the trip to Westcliffe, circa 1890s. Courtesy of the Denver Public Library.

By Forrest Whitman

Readers of Colorado Central have probably driven right next to the roadbed of a spectacular railroad loop without noticing it. Even today, the Rio Grande’s Texas Creek extension gives us spectacular views of a line built around the mountainside and up to the sky. Getting a view and photo of its high reaches above the Arkansas Valley led us on a trip there recently.