Pecos Junction to Fox Station

Pecos Junction Station

The penultimate G Line hike was a stroll down Pecos Street. It began at the RTD Pecos Junction Station. There's the Commerce City grain elevator #2 in the background.

The term "grain elevator" used to confuse me. They look like rows of silos...which they are. It turns out that a grain elevator can be the conveyor that transfers grain up from ground level to the top of a grain bin, or it can refer to the whole facility.

I was getting close to Denver, so the scenery was getting very urban...industries and residential neighborhoods. The train passes through train yards and the sprawling areas of stacks of metal and fabrications. I would get to see the more civilized fronts of the industrial complexes.

Pecos Street takes a long bridge over the railyards, providing some nice views of the mountains and the plains...and the railyards. The fences that run along the side are decorated with local children's art.

The Denver skyline is also right there.

I have no idea what this building is (or was). Other than the address, I couldn't find any information about it. It just struck me as an attractive example of single office building from the later half of the twentieth century.

It also shows the prevalence of finished basements in the Denver area. Where I come from in Alabama (and the past) a basement had a dirt floor and maybe a pit, and the hot water heater and furnace was down there. Here, people live in their basements and there should be a radon detector down there.

This may be the most interesting city park I've ever seen. Named Chaffee Park, it's a concrete median in a junction between busy city streets. Crosswalks enter and exit. It is nicely designed, though.

41st and Fox Station is in the Sunnyside neighborhood, once called "Little Italy". The Horace-Mann school building was built in 1931 to double as a community center. It now houses the Trevista, a prekindergarten to grade five school. It displays a highly ornate art deco style that was popular in the first half of the twentieth century. Obviously, there have been more modern additions.

Fox Station has another of those long pedestrian walkways that are common along the RTD light rail.

Fox Station, being the last on the G Line before downtown Denver provides good views of the Denver skyline and...uh, the railyards.

Denver is divided into neighborhoods for governmental reasons but each neighborhood also tends to have it's own appearance and culture. Are there areas of your town that feel different? Can you tell why?