Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Transportation – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
When a railroad line is abandoned, the right-of-way generally passes into other hands. Just whose hands is no simple matter.
Month: January 1995
Plans for the corridor
Sidebar by Allen Best & Ed Quillen
Transportation – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Although it appears likely that the Southern Pacific’s Royal Gorge-Tennessee Pass corridor will continue to operate about the same way that it has for the past thirty years, there are still plenty of people with plans for the corridor.
Who wins and who loses if Tennesse Pass is abandoned?
Article by Ed Quillen And Allen Best
Transportation – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
At present, it appears unlikely that the Southern Pacific would abandon the line that runs west from Cañon City through the Royal Gorge and across Tennessee Pass.
Reqiuem for the Tough Teat Dairy
Article by Tom Wolf
Forestry – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
“I just don’t want to have to look at your sawmill. I have a house across the road at Greenwood Tracts.”
The Flame and the Phoenix, by Pierson F. Melcher
Review by Ed Quillen
Education – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Flame and the Phoenix
by Pierson F. Melcher
Published in 1994 by Windhover Press,P.O. Box 63, Evergreen CO 80439
ISBN: 0963007114
Anza’s 1779 Comanche Campaign, by Ron Kessler
Review by Ed Quillen
History – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Anza’s 1779 Comanche Campaign
Diary of Governor Juan Bautista de Anza
by Ronald E. Kessler
No ISBN, published by the author,
1026 South County Road E, Monte Vista CO 81144
Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts, by C.G. Yeager
Review by Greg Truitt
Archeology – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts
C.G. Yeager
Published in 1986 by Pruett
ISBN 0-871-08-709-X
Field Guide to Mysterious Places of the West by S.M. Trento
Review by Ed Quillen
Geography – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Field Guide to Mysterious Places of the West
by Salvatore M. Trento
Published in 1994 by Pruett
ISBN 0-87108-851-7
Heavy Metal Water
Article by Jeffrey Keidel
Environment – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Several state-run water-quality improvement projects, including one in Central Colorado, have come to a screeching halt because the federal Environmental Protection Agency has changed the rules.
But what did they do besides flip charts?
Essay by Ellen Miller
Growth – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Everybody’s talking about the growth and development problem these days. Most of the talkers haven’t been here long enough to remember when, just a few years ago, mere survival was the issue. Mountain counties wanted growth, every county commissioner agreed, the governor weighed in, economic development councils were formed, and real-estate agents went berserk. Well, we got what we asked for.
Soaking at Valley View
Article by Christina Nealson
Hot Springs – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
The sun had fallen behind the Cochetopa Hills when the driver of the blue Subaru noticed red flashing lights bearing down on him.
Things aren’t really that bad, are they?
Essay by Martha Quillen
Modern Life – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Soon we will enter the last half of the final decade of the twentieth century. Right now in the United States, overall crime rates are down. Murder rates are down. Accident rates are down. Unemployment is down. :ife expectancy in North America surpasses the biblical three score and ten. And technically, our country is not in a recession, a depression, or a war.
Nice curmudgeon spin
Letter from Jack Slottag
Colorado Central – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
I finally got around to reading the November edition last night, starting at Martha’s terrific non-endorsing political piece at the front end. I read on and on to Ed’s really thorough appraisal of the Southern Pacific RR (the Minturn leg runs two miles below me) at the end.
Where was the environment in the Climax Mine epic?
Letter from Maggie Houston-Smith
Mining – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Steve Voynick’s account of the Climax Molybdenum Mine [published in the November and December editions] sifted very lightly over the environmental destruction of molybdenum mining. He mentioned environmental concerns as Queen Victoria did sex — hoping no one would mention its existence. I was at the site some years ago and saw no evidence of environmental concerns.
Imrie refuses to repent
Letter from Curtis Imrie
Politics – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
The past 45 years may ultimately be seen as a unique time in history. The world was polarized by superpower confrontations to an age of economic and political order, and it has been my privilege to watch this world unravel — although I’m not sure I can stand the steadily accelerating pace.
Notes and Commentary for January 1995
Brief by Central Staff
Various – January 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Colorado risks ‘losing its soul’
DENVER — “Just as it is possible for a person to lose his or her soul through a lifetime of indifference, so Colorado can lose its distinctiveness, its soul, as a community by failing to pay attention to the changes now taking place …”
