. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. cipitous. We crowd upon the platform, the outer step ofwhich sometimes hangs over an abyss that makes us shudder, till somefriendly bank places itself between us and the almost unbroken we learn to enjoy the imminent edge, along which the train creeps socautiously, and begrudge every instant that the landscape is shut out byintervening objects. To say that the vision here is grand, awe-inspiring,impressive or memorable, fa
. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. cipitous. We crowd upon the platform, the outer step ofwhich sometimes hangs over an abyss that makes us shudder, till somefriendly bank places itself between us and the almost unbroken we learn to enjoy the imminent edge, along which the train creeps socautiously, and begrudge every instant that the landscape is shut out byintervening objects. To say that the vision here is grand, awe-inspiring,impressive or memorable, falls short of the truth in each case. It is toomuch to take in at once. We are so high that not only the bottom of thevalley, where the silvery ribbon of the Los Pinos trails in and out amongthe trees, and underneath the headlands, but even the wooded tops of thefurther rounded hills are below us, and we can count the dim, distant peaksin New Mexico. Phantom Curve. One ot the most striking scene? o:i the line ofthis ascent is Phantom Curve. Just after the side-track station of Sublette(305 miles from Denver) has been passed, the road makes a great bend 114. u6 OVER THE RANGE around the side of a mountain; on the left rise tall monuments of sandstone,cut by the elements into weird and fantastic figures. Here is indeed a wildspot, with the valleys so deep below, the grotesque, red monumental rocksaround, the tall, shelving cliffs above. A mile beyond the Curve the rail-road crosses the head of the ravine on a high bridge of trestle work. Fromthis point the track runs directly toward the valley, on a line almost atright angles with it, to where it narrows into a mere fissure in the rocks atToltec Gorge. The approach to this great scenic wonderprepares the traveler for something extraordi-nary and spectacular. A black speck in thedistance against the precipitous surface of afrowning cliff is beheld long before Toltec isreached, and is pointed out as the entrance tothe tunnel which i
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