Kline

[Jeff Young]

Here's a location you don't see very often:


http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/78126/rec/8

Cheers,
Jeff.

[Jeff Young]

And while we're on the subject of Platte Canyon "pleasure grounds", the Glenisle hotel:


http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/78345/rec/107

[Darel Leedy]

See it every time I drive past Kline on 285. It's been up for sale for years.

[Jeff Young]

Darel Leedy wrote

See it every time I drive past Kline on 285. It's been up for sale for years.

Hey... not fair for those of us in far-flung lands.

[Jim Courtney]

Interesting track detail.  Notice how much the tie width varies, as well as the shape of the ties. Some are trapezoidal!

[Keith Hayes]

Probably logs.

[Jim Courtney]

Might as well look at some more McClure photos of Platte Canon resorts:

Insmont, MP 53.2, between Eastabrook and Baileys, had a six car spur:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/78122/rv/singleitem/rec/85


This resort had a "cyclodrome", built by the Denver Wheel Club, and sponsored weekend bicycle races, to lure Denver cycling enthusiasts to the lodge.


Chase, MP 63.5, just past Kline (later known as Weller):

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/78104/rv/singleitem



Cassall's, above Kline and Chase, at MP 64.4:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/78117/rv/singleitem/rec/140


The C&S tracks are just in front of the hotel, obscured by the distant bushes. There was a small wait station just below the hotel steps. The enlarged hotel pictured here was built in 1906 and by 1910 had an electric plant for lighting. Today, this area is known as Santa Maria, a Catholic Charities retreat. The large Christ statue on the mountainside to the North well marks the spot, as you drive west on US 285 toward Grant.

[Jim Courtney]

Thanks to Jeff's discovery of the photos on the "Postcard" site:   http://www.fairy-lamp.com/PCHS/DSPPRR_Postal_Markings_compressed.pdf, we can add a couple of views of Insmont and Chase (Weller) to this thread:



The wait station looks similar to that at Glen Isle.