Bridges at Romley

[Todd Hackett]

There are some interesting photos on eBay showing the trestle bents in place well after abandonment. They are identified as being copy slides.
Photo 1

Photo 2

[Southpark]

Those photos on the bridge are of Neal Millers car, slides are most likely Chione copies.   Neal was quite photographer from Longmont, Colorado.

[Jeff Young]

Interesting.  Derrell's map had both the mainline and the mill spur on the truss bridge, but I take it from these that only the mainline was on the truss, and that the spur was on a trestle?

[Mike Trent]

That's "Ole' Blue", if I'm not mistaken. Note the air horns. Neal was so crazy behind the wheel, even my Dad was worried riding with him, and my brother and I were absolutely forbidden my our mother to ever ride with him, although we loved it and never missed a chance. Neal loved that car and never found another one that matched it.

Very cool. Thanks Todd. Great shots of the bridges too!

[usairman737]

Great photos, but makes me sad.  I had all the C&S/South Park Al Choine slide duplicatess - - lost all in the 2013 flood.

Gerry

[Don Gustavson II]

I have seen a poor version of the following photo out on the web.
I have been trying to track down a better version of it. Contacted the people at the St, Elmo store and all.

Today I came across a better version of it on Worthpoint.
I am excited. because it also shows another angle of the town.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ghost-town-romley-colorado-co-chaffee-1792281523

For sure the gulch has two tracks going over it. But still a little hard to tell if there are two separate bridges or not.
Sometimes I tend to think there was is two separate bridges. Just does not seem that the existing one is wide enough to accommodate two side by side trains.
(According to some dimensions I have found in the internet.)
The above pictures support this idea also.

But on the other hand. The way the rock/mountain is on the south/west end of the bridge, does not seem to leave enough space for a trestle next to the existing bridge.
 
When I visited the location I did know there was any question. So I did not go down looking for any old timbers from a trestle.

Maybe there was a wood trestle in the beginning? Later they removed part of it to make way for the current bridge.
I don't know. Just making stuff up now.  
On my layout I am leaning towards running two tracks over the same bridge.

Either way I am happy to have found this picture. (maybe its in one of the books I have not gone all the way through yet)

[Jim Courtney]

Don,


The postcard was printed from a photograph by a gentleman named Hartley. It was published in both The Pictorial Supplement . . . and The Mineral Belt, Volume 2:




To my eye, there is a space between the mainline track supported by the truss bridge and whatever supports the siding, suggesting 2 separate bridges. The bridge under the siding also appears longer, extending further toward the photographer.

But I think the photo that Todd posted at the top of the thread settles the issue; rock outcropping or no, it is hard to argue with standing trestle bents, next to the truss bridge, in the early 1950's.

[Don Gustavson II]

Thanks Jim.

This forum makes me feel like I am cheating.
I really need to thoroughly go through the books I have.

Maybe I make two bridges. I do have some wood bents laying around that I have no home for.
Was going to use them in the King City Coal mine area. But that idea is slowly loosing its luster. As I have the main line up and running as is.


I laid them out here just to see what I have.

[Todd A Ferguson]

This image is from the Romley valuation map that is available from the Colorado Railroad Museum collection.  It shows two separate bridges of different lengths...



Best,
Todd Ferguson

[Randy Rieck]

Here is a picture of my rendition of the bridge at Pomeroy Gulch.  I elected not to include the remains of the wooden trestle due to space considerations.  The plans were provided by Todd Hackett from an old magazine article.

[John McCutcheon]

In looking at the photo in Mineral Belt Vol II it shows a main line and a passing siding on the bridge (double bridge) but the plans from the C&S show the siding after the bridge. Any idea when this track change was made.

[Todd A Ferguson]

My guess, and it is just a guess, would be after the Alpine Tunnel was closed...

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In looking at the photo in Mineral Belt Vol II it shows a main line and a passing siding on the bridge (double bridge) but the plans from the C&S show the siding after the bridge. Any idea when this track change was made.

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[Don Gustavson II]

Good stuff.
Thank you Todd.