Merry Christmas

[DRGWK37]

Happy and SAFE Holidays!











William
aka drgwk37

[Keith Hayes]

Thank you, William, but the photo of the 8 is backwards ya know? The cinder tube from the Ridgeway spark arrestor is routed down the fireman's side of the smoke box. Best you stick to those D&RGW hogs.

[Jeff Young]

Ahh, but I love that shot.

So the dead #8 is being dragged from Dickey back to Denver, right?  And this is somewhere along the Blue between Dickey and Break, headed south?  Anyone know exactly where?

Cheers,
Jeff.

[Keith Hayes]

Yes...I believe the locomotives were stored dead in Dickey the last winter, and this movement sent them all to Denver. I suspect this is just north of Breck looking west, probably near where the rec center is today. Wasn't it 8 that the C&S was looking to donate to a town and could not find a taker?

[skip]

Maybe...


Merry Christmas everyone!

Skip Egdorf
Los Alamos, NM

[Robert McFarland]

This is from the color movie.

[Chris Walker]

39.512738, -106.048919

[DRGWK37]

Info I have says near Breckenridge. It is a neat photo.

William
aka drgwk37

[Jeff Young]

Ahh… excellent Chris.

I spent some time with Google Maps, but having not flipped the picture I was of course looking at the wrong side of the valley.  D’oh.

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas.

Cheers,
Jeff.

[Chris Walker]

Perhaps you can scope out that dogleg in the Blue on your next visit Jeff, to see if any Pilings remain?

[vulturenest]

That area (near the Colorado Mountain College campus) has been heavily reworked over the years, I think the river itself has been rerouted a bit.  There's a gravel company there now, too.  I've never seen any pilings there, though I haven't looked specifically for them.  

The only piling I know about in Breck are the ones across South Park Avenue south of the fake dredge (south end of downtown) between two modern buildings, though  thought there used to be some inside that first big loop on Boreas Pass Road (last loop going into town.)

Mike Conder

[Jeff Young]

Yeah, that section of the Blue has been reclaimed.  The pilings Mike is talking about are the ones I posted a picture of a year or so ago (our condo is in one of those modern buildings).

Cheers,

Jeff.

On 27 Dec 2017, at 06:27, vulturenest [via C&Sng Discussion Forum] <[hidden email]> wrote:

That area (near the Colorado Mountain College campus) has been heavily reworked over the years, I think the river itself has been rerouted a bit.  There's a gravel company there now, too.  I've never seen any pilings there, though I haven't looked specifically for them.  

The only piling I know about in Breck are the ones across South Park Avenue south of the fake dredge (south end of downtown) between two modern buildings, though  thought there used to be some inside that first big loop on Boreas Pass Road (last loop going into town.)

Mike Conder

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[Robert McFarland]

Bogies&Loop July 2012  p14-15 The Scott Family Visits Breckenridge has a then and now view.

[Chris Walker]

 I think the river itself has been rerouted a bit.  

Just a "bit" Jeff.
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/32025/rv/singleitem/rec/25



USGS Dillon 1934




http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/

[ComoDepot]

The Hotel photo I would date c 1950.