...to drop my son’s vehicle off at the San Luis Valley Auto Repair shop on US 285/N. Broadway, I took the following photos on my walk back home, along N. Broadway until the intersection with US 160/First Avenue.
This is where Acequia Drive meets N. Broadway. Acequia is a crooked road that follows the crooked acequia (irrigation ditch) that winds its way a block or so north of US 160. It’s not a pretty street, what with the abandoned houses and railcars, the warehouses and packing plants and such. The early fall morning sun makes everything better, though. It also helps that the sky is clear of the wildfire smokes of four states for the first time in an aching long while.
Walking south across the intersection I come to the big, weedy lot where the old railcars rot away at the end of equally decrepit tracks. I’ve photographed this place before (see here), but I’ve yet to capture whatever it is I’m looking for from this place.
It’s picturesque, but only if you’re viewing these images in photographs. One certainly wouldn’t want to have to behold the slow progress of this decay from one’s window. Sadly, this lot will likely have to catch fire before anything is done. It’s not as if city planners ever anticipate having to deal with disposing of abandoned railcars and the rusting tracks they crumble away on, let alone the metric scads of abandoned houses when the boom times fade to history.
Looking across the street seems like another world. Having the sun at your back makes all the difference.
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| Looking west/southwest down the working SLV/Rio Grande tracks. You can see the goalposts for one end of the Monte Vista High School football field at left. |
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| Following the river to Del Norte and the San Juan Mountains beyond. |
At the intersection where US 285 turns left/east to join US 160 until Alamosa, and Broadway crosses to become S. Broadway/CO 15, we note a sight peculiar to this season and the year 2017.
All photographs in this post Copyright © 2017 by Lawrence Roy Aiken.
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