C&S video footage

[Norm Acker]

These very short video links were posted by Rod on the NGDF board yesterday:

#8 with Leadville passenger train:
https://www.videoblocks.com/video/1934-dirty-smoky-locomotive-train-passing-small-mountain-town-denver-colorado-100-unique-retro-8mm-film-home-movie-professionally-captured-with-proprietary-post-production-in-full-4k-resolution-v36uftn9eikhiot8q/

Pop car:
https://www.videoblocks.com/video/1934-man-riding-railroad-tracks-on-fast-motorized-velocipede-handcar-denver-colorado-100-unique-retro-8mm-film-home-movie-professionally-captured-with-proprietary-post-production-in-full-4k-resolution-npwtg6n5likhiqa9x/

Any ideas on the location? The large horizontal tank reminds me of Bailey, but do I see a filling station with gas pumps...???

Norm

[Chris Walker]

Definitely Baileys.  Interesting to see yet another Tank there too, the vertical one that isn't in this Sanborn postcard view, at least two Gas stations there.  Building at left in Postcard shows in both Movie clips.


http://www.parkcoarchives.org/photos/photos1/photos_bailey2.html


http://www.parkcoarchives.org/photos/photos1/photos_bailey2.html

[Jim Courtney]

Here is a 1940s, post-abandonment view, also from the Park County Collection, that shows both Conoco storage tanks:


http://www.parkcoarchives.org/photos/photos1/photos_bailey2.html


The highway, later US 285, is pretty much on the railroad grade. The little pump house, just to the west of the depot, still stands along the South Platte. The depot is just out of frame to the right. The old main street runs behind the Conoco facility tanks and is visible to the far left, as well as the building with multiple windows, by the Texaco sign.

Since the vertical tank isn't in most 1920s and 1930s photos, the film must date to the late 1930s, just prior to abandonment.  Neat passenger train: Baggage, RPO and coach.

It was common for a pop car to follow the passenger train in summer, to extinguish any fires set by the passing locomotive. The Bailey's Historical Society markets a CD with compilation 8mm footage from the 1930s. Included are scenes of the teacher and students of a small school next to the right of way (I believe it was Shawnee), putting out a grass fire that number 9 and the west bound passenger had just started. Evidently the Ridgeway spark arrestors were not 100% effective in their designed purpose.

[Robert McFarland]

Notice the car had a headlight.

[Robert McFarland]

C&S 8's train has a single door baggage car,an RPO of the 10-11-12 group and a 13 window passenger car. It would seem that the location would be almost right behind Chris' second photo.

[Jeff Ramsey]

Great stuff! I wonder if Helen Tatum was the photographer?