C&S Narrow Gauge in Color

[Chris Walker]

I'm a bit late with the Homework you set me Jim,  

yes, nearly at Floyd Hill right where Otto took this great picture, John Maxwell would be about just behind where the caboose is.


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/42724/rv/singleitem/rec/43

Which at my best comparison would be here, on the otherside of Clear Creek alongside the presentday I-70 just before the exit ramp to US-6 Eastbound.  I always thought this area was kinda nice, I hadn't really compared the channelling of the Creek during the construction of I-70 before.

[Doug Heitkamp]

All,

I thought I would drop in and see what's been happening here on the forum. I saw this topic…….So, here is one I grabbed from eBay:



There were quite a few offered up a while back. I'm sure these are well know pics that made the rounds in the past.

Doug H.
Centennial, CO

[Jim Courtney]

Interesting modern photo, Chris.

Did you notice that both the photo of 69 and your modern photo have power transmission towers on the distant ridge?

[Ken Martin]

Here is one a little earlier. It is a chromolithograph by William Jackson. Where he colorized one of his pics.

Location is just below tunnel 2. You can still see rocks in background

Ken

[Jim Courtney]

Along the lines of chromolithography, here is a color view of Blackhawk:




Can't tell if the Gilpin 3-rail track is still in place.  But Jeff, that switch stand target (at bottom center) looks white to me.

[Rick Steele]

Jim,

I've seen that Black Hawk photo "In the flesh". Yes, the Gilpin's 3rd rail is still there.

Rick

[Paul R.]

Just love all of the colour photos gives some of us a good guide for the colours of our models. Paul R. Ballarat,Vic ,AU.

[Jim Courtney]

I had forgotten the Rick Steele had posted these two color transparencies of C&S 71 stopping for water at Elk Creek Tank, back in Chris's thread: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/Elk-Creek-Tank-or-Every-Now-and-Then-I-Get-Lucky-td1294.html

[Chris Walker]

#71 in train for Blackhawk.


John Maxwell photo

[Jeff Young]

Hmmm… looks like all my rock walls need a bit more ink/alcohol on them….

[Don Gustavson II]

Yep. This makes me want to touch up some of my stone/rock walls also.

[Doug Heitkamp]

Another picture from eBay. Was listed as 1940

[Doug Heitkamp]

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[Chris Walker]

John Maxwell photo

[Rick Steele]

Just a side note.

Judging by the cinder piles next to 71, cleaning the cinders out of the smokebox at Elk Creek may not have been an uncommon occurrence. There are more cinders there than can come from one smokebox.

Also, they are not smoking, so those that we see over the side of the Right-of-way are not hot enough to register in the photo.

Rick

[Jim Courtney]

I was browsing through the Dorman Collection on Line last evening and stumbled upon these John Maxwell Kodachrome slides, taken in the summer of 1941.

http://ngtrainpics.photoshelter.com/gallery/RDS017-C-S-Como-Ops-RGS-Tour/G0000w74vV9hPTBo/C0000Vd2qoA2MbNU




C&S 70 takes water at Forks Tank after turning to back to Blackhawk. This image has been posted above--this one seems a little sharper.




C&S 70 and 69, both backing, move a train including dead C&S 71, the display coal car and combine 20 up grade to Blackhawk, passing the site of Smith Hill tank.




C&S 70 leaves lower Blackhawk at dusk, eastbound.




C&S 70, backing westbound by the Argo Tunnel, with a train of flat cars.




C&S 75 at Leadville, May 1st, 1941.




Another view of C&S 75 at Leadville, with part of CONX tank car in background. A bit of a guide to weathering.




Finally, C&S 75 and train depart Leadville, eastbound for Climax.

[snapped_bolt]

  Bridge Inspector's Report:

    Stringers Missing!!!

       Or should I say, "Wooden Stringers Missing!!!"

       Apparently (maybe not-so-apparent) after the washout, the bridge was reconstructed using rails in the place of the wooden stringers.
       The NP did this along Lake Whatcom on the Bellingham branch; the abutments there were concrete and the rails were cast in the pour. They used 112-28RE rails, grouped 4 per side.
       Narrow gauge probably would not need the same fixing arrangement with lighter equipment.

       Streams prone to slides during floods are armed with some true nasties, from abrasive slurries to logs in the form of battering rams. I imagine the Q installed oh, maybe #85 rails as stringers here, giving the bridge an additional 10" clearance over the stream.

       Cheers

        Stan

[Doug Heitkamp]

Bringing another thread back from the dead......

Going through files on an old computer, I ran into this picture. Thought I would post it here to add to the collection.

[Kurt Maechner]

Wow!  That is bright!  Cool pic.