Lava Slides in Red Rock Canyon - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Panoramic view of a most interesting portion of this beautiful gorge on the Colorado Midland Railway. This picture was taken from a car placed ahead of the two engines on a regular express train, which was pushed around the sharp curves at...See morePanoramic view of a most interesting portion of this beautiful gorge on the Colorado Midland Railway. This picture was taken from a car placed ahead of the two engines on a regular express train, which was pushed around the sharp curves at sixty miles an hour. The scenery seems to spring right at the audience and causes everybody to hold their breath to keep the heart from beating in the excitement. On the left of the scene are the lava slides, great masses of broken rock piled down the side of the mountain. Great striking examples of the Rockies are seen in the background. The Frying Pan river, with millions of trout, rushes by on the right. The track twists and curves and seems to run directly into the mountain, but of course bends at the right time, and the camera catches a new and even more beautiful view. To show a set of moving pictures of Colorado without having some of Granite canyon would be a very serious mistake, indeed. Never before has it been possible to get them, on account of the expense involved. Written by Selig catalog See less