Image of Grant

[Mike McKenzie]

This is the same image of Grant that Jim posted in the Conoco thread. I scanned it from the cover of the Spring '74 Slim Gauge News (the precursor to the NG&SL Gazette, along with FineLines). The photo also appears on page 178 of Klinger's C&S Platte Canon Memories.

This unremarkable photo is one on my favorite C&S photos, and back in '74 really cemented my affection for the C&S (shared with D&RGW 3rd division among a few others). As much as I like the Palisades, Toltec Gorge, Ophir Loop and other scenic landmarks, the railroads would have avoided them if there had been an easier route. This photo simply illustrates a working train passing thru a little town. It's beautiful in it's simplicity. Would love to get a good print and frame it.

That's all I got...

Mike

[John McCutcheon]

Mike

Believe you can contact Western History Department if this is a Kindig photo; don't have my books in front of me to verify. Tom Klinger used this photo in his book on the Platt Canon he might be able to tell you where to get a copy.

[Mike McKenzie]

Hey John,

Quick looks at Dorman and DPL provides no results. Attribution for photo from Platte Canon Memories: 1929. Colorado Railroad Museum, Whatley Collection. Slim Gauge News sites DPL Western History. It's out there, just have to look a little harder.

Mike

[Jim Courtney]

Mike,

I've been suspecting that this photo at Grant was taken by DWB photographers on the special train of January, 1929, likely on the return trip.

Consider:


Scanned from Colorado Rail Annual #12.


Engine 9 and the eastbound DWB special wait at the west end of Webster siding.  An east bound freight slowly eases down the Kenosha grade into Hall's Valley.  

I believe the train descending into Hall's Valley may be the same one at Grant, with C&S 73 as the locomotive. It's hard in the silhouetted train to identify a tank car though.

After arriving at Webster to take water, the freight would have likely followed the DWB special to Grant, and it's photo was taken there, by the garage and gas station.

At least the date 1929 matches, can't prove much else.  

So maybe the Grant photo that you covet resides with other Denver Water Board photos . . .

[Chris Walker]

Jim postulated...."So maybe the Grant photo that you covet resides with other Denver Water Board photos . . . "

He is most likely correct since a most clearer version is in Mineral Belt Vol-II on pg63 and is attributed to Colorado & Southern Railway -  Richard Ronzio Collection