Following the C&S in Platte Canyon: Bailey to Maddox
I had a chance a few years back to trace some of the old Platte Canyon C&S grade and videoed the trip.
In this video, filmed fall of 2022, you will trace the Denver, South Park & Pacific/Colorado & Southern Railway's right-of-way from the town of Bailey to Maddox. Today's US 285 is now on top of the old railroad grade for this stretch. Along the way you will see places where the trains once stopped such as the resort of Glen Isle where the 1901 hotel still stands and the original Glen Isle wait station (now restored in Bailey). You will also see the stop at Grousemont and its wait station. Lastly, is a stop at Maddox where many C&S boxcars were once filled with ice and sent to Denver. At the end is a look at where the RR grade leaves 285 on a ranch driveway.
I know it's a lot of 'just driving on a road,' but it's fun to imagine seeing these sights from the window of South Park passenger car or the cab window of a locomotive.
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