After Hours in Central City, Redux

[Darel Leedy]

Thanks John. It looks like you are spot on. The grade to CC appears in the background as does the road split between Main and Backus. I am going to assume the red building behind the dock is the C&S section house. Hard to tell if the tracks go beyond the section house.

[Darel Leedy]

Watching the Machines of Iron DVD again answered all my questions.  

[John Schapekahm]

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[Darel Leedy]

John, the DVD has lots of footage of switching in the Blackhawk yard. And a Kindig photo with a great view of the section house and yard tracks, ramp for the dock etc. etc.

[John Schapekahm]

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[Rick Steele]

John,

I love that aerial photo of Central. It shows graphically how much real estate was gobbled up by that tailings pile from the Chain O' Mines.

Bye the way, I remember the Tailings pile looking like the Wolle photo before the city decided to grade it and create the Free Parking Lot. It was a huge thing and every time the wind blew it went everywhere. Probably why it was named a biohazard and the Feds decided to "Remediate" it. The folks in Central are lucky that they didn't just decide to spray liquid latex (or whatever those chemicals are) all over it like they do now on Coal Trains to keep that nasty old coal dust down.

I remember that Harold Caldwell (thanks again for the reminder of his name) wanted to go through and reprocess those tailings. He was sure that he'd find millions in that muck. I think that he was fooling himself. That stuff is pretty much crunched up man made mud. I doubt if there is much of anything in there except Angelo's Clay and Bill Russell's Mercury... and maybe Jimmy Hoffa....

Rick

[Tim Schreiner]

The one good thing about the very finely crushed mine tailing is that it will be very useful for modeling.

[Tim Schreiner]

Here's my bucket!

[Keith Hayes]

Tim, I have one of those myself. Actually two, both from Leadville. One is more yellow, and the second red. I have a neat sifter that nicely grades the stuff, which turns the big bucket of rock into about 8 smaller jars of now graded rock: I suppose I should just throw away the fines as they are too fine for any use but paint pigment.

The little safety guy inside me wonders, "is this stuff laced with nasties?" I dug my material off the surface, and while I long ago forgot the specifics, I bet my sources had more than a decade of winters to let surface water move the bad stuff further into the pile. But who knows?

This is what is holding up me finishing the Miles Montgomery and Penrose tailings piles.

[Tim Schreiner]

My batch came from the tailing that currently entombs the Central City depot. Looking forward to someday using it.just need a home to build my layout.

[John Schapekahm]

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[Robert McFarland]

Back then they didn't know what hazmat was.I remember an early 50s kid show called "Winky-Dink" that encouraged its viewers to put a piece of clear plastic on their TV screen  and draw on it with a crayon-back when picture tubes weren't the safest things to hang around.

[Chris Walker]

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/15983/rv/singleitem

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[Tim Schreiner]

Yup, great photo find!!!

[John Schapekahm]

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