Buckwalter Rotary Photo

[Robert McFarland]

Check out DPL CHS-B706 Haven't seen this one before.

[Chris Walker]

Most likely the Leadville freighthouse in rear, probably the 064.

Look Keith a Cattle loading chute!!

[Jim Courtney]

Can someone post a link? I can't seem to pull up a photo with Robert's negative number.

[Chris Walker]

Why can't Robert post his link(s)??

Copy the number without the "DPL" into the SEARCH PHOTOGRAPH box eg CHS-B706

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll21/id/4190/rv/singleitem/rec/1

[Keith Hayes]

Ohhh...didn't expect to see that there.

That gets me to thinking....

[Keith Hayes]

What is in the open cars behind the tender? Surplus McConnell stacks?

[Jim Courtney]

Keith,

They copied your board fences, separating the tracks. Note the two white-fascia board boxcars just peeking over the fence, to the right of the rotary.

Who knows what's in those two Peninsular 30 foot coal cars.

[Chris Walker]

what's in those two Peninsular 30 foot coal cars?

Could be Hoods for Smokestacks at a Mine or Mill powerhouse or Cones for a classifier at a Mill.

[Keith Hayes]

So they did, Jim. And to think I was just trying to hide a train in staging....

[Chris Walker]

I would think there would've been an slaughterhouse in Finntown to supply fresh meat to the City, there also would have been a need to unload Equine power for the teamsters.  

There is no end to the details hiding in the background of these sorts of photos that once pointed out, should keep Keith busy for some time.  

I also wonder how many viewers in the past have dismissed this photo as just another UP Rotary since one would have expected it to be lettered UP,D&G or DL&G ?

[Keith Hayes]

I have wondered that myself, Chris. Leadville was big enough that I cannot imagine all the beef (and pork, and poultry) being slaughtered and processed in Denver back in the day and then shipped to the Cloud City. Plus, with the limited refrigeration facilities, I would imagine most meat processing would be done both locally and not too far before consumption.

Though...according to Brother d, the C&S refers travelled in pairs, which reminds me of the D&RGW practice with the short (30') refers, two of which corresponded to a 40' standard gauge car--this is what caused the D&RGW to build the long (40') refers to better correspond to SG capacity.

Well, an excuse to build some stock pens near the scale house and the second barn. But first there is finishing the ballast and the plank grade crossings, and then lots of grass, and then the Penrose, and then extending the coal delivery spur...and all those other projects you have me down for!

[Robert McFarland]

What about the fact that when the DSP&P was heading for Leadville in 1879 and along with the wagon freighters was having a tough time supplying the town there was a lot of worries about possible food shortages.There was also problems around Breckinridge  and other towns during the winter of 1899.

[tonyk375]

Have always loved the Union Pacific lettering on this picture of the rotary.

[tonyk375]

This is the third housing for this rotary.  It was delivered with a high body very similar to the two D&RG rotaries which were built the same year.  D&RG 1 (OM) was leslie # 24.  D&RG 2 (ON) was #25 and UP 064 (C&S 99200) was Leslie #26.  It then had the roof line rebuilt with the angled sides similar to what is later seen on the RGS rotaries. Presumably this is to clear the tunnel.  That body is evident in the Alpine trial picture and was demolished in an encounter with the Uneva Lake slide in Ten Mile Canyon west of Frisco.  There is a great picture of the wrecked rotary being hauled back up the mountain and Hol Wagner has a picture of the wrecked plow back on the tracks in his Burlington Bulletin.  The pictured body was lettered for the UP then the DL&G.  Then the plow received another body after the Como RH fire,

[vulturenest]

looks like industrial fans to me, the scrolls used in dust control and/or underground mine ventilation.

I used to design such equipment for a copper mine and the fan scrolls would wear out due to the high and abrasive dust load in the air.

Mike Conder