Clockwise from top:

- Happy that its getting warmer.

- Veronica and Steve.

- Frozen ground descending from Pike's Peak.

Clockwise from top:

- The group in the colorful railway station at the
  bottom in Manitou Springs.

- Pete and Kathy.

- Pete and Kathy outside the depot.

Clockwise from top:

- A model of timber square-set frame shoring
  in a vertical mineshaft, invented by Philipp
  Deidesheimer at the Comstock Lode in
  Virginia City in 1860.

- A pneumatically operated pumping shaft
  with a complex four-bar linkage mechanism.

Clockwise from top:

- A Corliss steam engine mounted horizontally.
  The display is driven by electric motor. This is
  a tandem compound cylinder design.

- Pete by the main drive cylinders. Note the rotating
  governor in the top center of the photo. (Mechanical
  Engineers live for this stuff!).

- Engineers live for this stuff, too!

Clockwise from top:

- A vertically mounted steam driven prime-mover
  used for general power distribution but mostly to
  drive water pumps.

- A steam-turbine driven centrifugal rotary water pump.

- Our last stop was The Fort, a restaurant and shop
  in a recreation of a nineteenth century military
  compound built of adobe. Although it was built in 1962
  it is quite extensive, the restaurant staff dress in
  period clothing, and the menu consists of period items
  and drinks. Buffalo, elk, quail, duck, lamb and salmon
  are menu items, all of which we ate, all in five-star
  treatment. It was *very* good. Reservations
  are difficult of obtain. The Fort sits alone on a bluff
  overlooking the plains to the east, and is very near Red
  Rocks Park outside southwest Denver. The website is
  http://www.thefort.com/home_4/home_4_main.asp.
  (Click on the web address to open The Fort's web page).
  Yes, that is snow on the inner courtyard grounds.