slgwv's photos with the keyword: main street

Colorado, USA, looking south along Main Street. Silverton is an old mining town in the Colorado Rockies that has a new lease on life as a tourist attraction. They've deliberately tried to keep the "Old West" motifs with the architecture. It's also the northern terminus of the Durango-Silverton narrow-gage line, a highly popular excursion train, and one of the last surviving relics of what was once a huge network of narrow-gage lines in this area. US highway 550, the "Million Dollar Highway" (of obscure origin--it cost a _lot_ more than that!) is visible crossing the forested slope near the base. It's the automobile route to Durango (to the south) and Ouray (to the north). The sign at lower left says "State Law--Yield to Pedestrians in Crosswalk." I'm in the crosswalk, but maybe I should have stepped forward a bit to miss the sign. Or maybe it gives foreground interest ;)