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Georgetown Loop steam train Front Range Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
The Devil's Gate Viaduct, the curved steel bridge where the line passes above itself, was first completed in 1884 to serve silver mines. The line ran until 1939, then sat quiet for forty years before the Colorado Historical Society laid the track back. Today narrow-gauge steam locomotives still climb the 638 feet of grade between Georgetown and Silver Plume. Three miles of route, two miles of straight-line distance, the difference made up by the loop. The whistle carries down Clear Creek Canyon. The pines hold the smoke for a long time.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.