![]() ![]() ![]() However, the marsh, or ox bow pond, wasn’t deep enough to support fish. “I thought, ‘You know, it would be fun to fish in that,’” Boulger recalled. “Mom, dad, the grandparents and the kids are all taken care of in one spot.”īoulger was thinking about that forgotten little piece of the Yampa River when inspiration struck. “People go to Disneyland because they have so much to offer,” Boulger said. ![]() One of the challenges Boulger said the museum continually faces is how to entertain children while their parents or grandparents stroll the museum. “My ideas come when I’m taking a shower,” Boulger said. Since then, a straight length of train tracks has run parallel to the channel and the discarded half-mile bend in the river has deteriorated into a marsh.īoulger, then the new museum office manager, hatched a plan in an unlikely place. They straightened the river by cutting a new channel. Instead, the engineers created a third option. They could either lay tracks alongside the bend in the river, or they could erect two bridges to span the bend and maintain a straight line for the tracks. The Yampa River arched north against a bluff. When they reached the present-day location of the museum, engineers discovered a problem. In 1913, engineers were laying tracks for a railroad line from Steamboat Springs to Craig. But, the story really begins nearly 100 years ago, with the arrival of the railroad. ![]()
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