{"id":132170,"date":"2016-12-06T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/what-will-become-of-the-burnham-yard.html"},"modified":"2016-12-11T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T21:11:43","slug":"what-will-become-of-the-burnham-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/what-will-become-of-the-burnham-yard.html","title":{"rendered":"What will become of the Burnham Yard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a commuter along the light rail, it&#39;s been shocking to see the changes at the yard since UP shut down the place. All the trains in for repair have been taken away, of course. 90% of the track has been yanked out. I&#39;m sure a decent amount of soil decontamination needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope that some of the classic structures on the site can be preserved. There&#39;s a lot of history there, and Denver has seen in the past decade or two how much modern appreciation there is for old brick buildings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.lifeoncaphill.com\/index.php\/burnham-yard-closing'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/feeirjV3Mxzq7JAEWK6Y_dPkqCVnRLSDcCshyz6hRGJ4aMObwiiSJ4pbWLyzT1UlK5rtsMvbMCSKVhwYRn2zbHVwiA4YS5HxLPAksLT2Lkjraq6CR_48EEZ6ClmsUwGKN9serL5nEv6SY-4=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.lifeoncaphill.com\/index.php\/burnham-yard-closing'>Burnham Yard closing ends chapter of Denver history | Life on Capitol Hill<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nBy Lucy Graca. As commuters riding RTD&#8217;s C or E Lines rise over Santa Fe Drive and pull into the 10th and Osage station, they might look down at the mass of railroad tracks and lines of locomotives and freight cars gathering graffiti to the west. Drivers heading west on the Eighth Avenue &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/G7E6dFphb4F'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a commuter along the light rail, it&#39;s been shocking to see the changes at the yard since UP shut down the place. All the trains in for repair have been taken away, of course. 90% of the track has been yanked out. I&#39;m sure a decent amount of soil decontamination needs to be done. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/what-will-become-of-the-burnham-yard.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What will become of the Burnham Yard?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,721],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-interesting-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132291,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/the-dept-of-energy-wont-rat-out-workers-involved-in-climate-change-work.html","url_meta":{"origin":132170,"position":0},"title":"The Dept. of Energy won&#039;t rat out workers involved in climate change work","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-16 12:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to a lengthy survey sent out to DoE leadership by the Trump transition team -- which, in addition to other info, asked for lists of employees who had attended climate change conferences, worked on climate change research, etc., the DoE has responded:'\u201cThe Department of Energy received significant feedback\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43776,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/23\/the-costa-concordia-adventure.html","url_meta":{"origin":132170,"position":1},"title":"The Costa Concordia Adventure","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Jul-14 11:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"Some amazing pictures of the Italian cruise ship that ran aground over two years ago, as it was finally righted and refloated on its way to a salvage yard.The pictures from inside before the put right-side-up reminded me of The Poseidon Adventure, though with less Shelley Winters.Reshared post from +In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/c16_RTR3ZBZY.jpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17147,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/yard-bird.html","url_meta":{"origin":132170,"position":2},"title":"Yard bird","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 18-Apr-10 3:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I did another 3 or so hours of yardwork this afternoon ... 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