1980 C&S News (2) - C&S Diesel Wreck Near French Gulch Water Tank

[Kurt Maechner]

Still rolling through the archive of the Rocky Mountain Rail Report, the newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club on the lookout for C&S-related happenings. Here is a post with some more miscellaneous South Park Line/C&Sng news from the 1980 editions including:

Wreck near French Gulch Water Tank
A C&S diesel took a nose dive into a significant washout and nearly pulled a tank car down with it.

Eye-witness to last C&S narrow gauge passenger train shares footage.
A woman who recorded film of the 1937 last passenger train through Platte Canyon shared her footage with the Club. A short clip is included in the post.

Enjoy,
Kurt

[Keith Hayes]

Some sweet video, Kurt.

The segments with the boxcar on the head end are the last westbound train. Locomotive #9 really booked along, even if it was only 20 mph!

The short segment of the freight train, is one of the 4-engine freights slugging their way up Platte Canon. Though I have no doubt Helen McGaw shot this, Otto Perry took some longer segments. The lead locomotive in this footage is one of the leased D&RGW C-19s.

[Kurt Maechner]

The video footage is really neat. I have the full DVD with a longer segment of that double headed freight in Platte Canyon. It is amazing just how s l o w it is!
Kurt

[Mike Trent]

Old Doug Scharbush always said. when asked about the speed of the freight trains, "No faster than a man could walk."