Breckenridge

[South Park]

  I wonder how the author knew those were W.F.G.CO. - made insulators ?

  If they were, they were these:

http://www.insulators.info/photos/photos/288-aqu.htm

[Mark Vendl]

Jim Courtney encouraged me to post this panorama of Breckenridge I recently acquired. The enlargement shows the town side of the depot and the placement of windows and doors on that side.

Cheers

[Jim Courtney]

Mark,

Thanks so much for posting your photos. And thanks again for being so kind as to share them with me,

I've been playing with the photo and enlargement that you sent me. The four page fold out looks to be from a book. do you have a reference for it's origin?

FWIW, here is the panorama cleaned and resized--it is difficult to post such a large photo on the Nabble format:




The enlargement of the depot area you sent has lots of useful railroad info:




In our correspondence, Mark and I discussed dating the photo. The depot is painted in its final grey / green paint scheme. According to Dan Edwards’s Documentary History . . ., the depot at Breckenridge was painted by the new C&S a "bright red" in the summer of 1901, and wasn’t repainted from solid dark red to the later grey and green (as at Como today) until August of 1913. So, Mark's photos date sometime after that date, likely mid 19teens.

The light depot color in Mark's enlargement finally gives us solid info about the rear (town side) of the depot, as far as windows and doors. Todd Hackett posted a high-res image of a Sanborn postcard photo a while back, another panorama of Breckenridge from the 1920s. The depot area from Todd's postcard is enlarged below:




Mark and I both want to build models of the Breck depot, he in HO scale and I in S scale (actually I'm going to have to build two, one in solid red and the other in grey/green). It would be great if someone could come up with Shapeways prints for the doors, windows and baggage doors . . .

[Chris Walker]

[Jeff Young]

Last year one of the bents on the Breckenridge trestle over the Blue River had started to fall over.  Looks like someone (Forest Service?) has concreted in the posts and laid a new deck and some rails.

Pity about the concrete, but I guess something had to be done.

[jw.stephens]

South Park wrote

The Breckenridge depot was moved to Denver to replace the
depot they moved to Como.  You can get color photos and paint
samples from the display in the lobby.

This statement confuses me. I had thought that the Como depot, restored now, was in place before the High Line to Breckenridge was built. The info that I have is that the first known photo of the Como depot is 1883 so it's unknown what the depot looked like prior to that. Please set me straight here.

[Chris Walker]

He's pullin ya leg Mate.  

[jw.stephens]

Well I guess better that than that thingie in between