After leaving Greely, I went with my friends to Buena Vista CO, a very beautiful area, looking out from their house at 14,000 ft peaks.

Buena Vista view of Collegiate Peaks

Another surprise, was that in the Chafee county courthouse housing the Buena Vista Heritage Museum had a model train exhibit, begun in 1984, all about the railroads and mining in the upper Arkansas River Valley.

Buena Vista Model Railroad Society entrance

Area of model around Leadville CO.

An old photograph showing some of the early building of the model railroad

Old building photo