Proof that not only the Eating House was built on stilts at Forks Creek.

[John Schapekahm]

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[Todd Hackett]

John Schapekahm wrote

...Here are a couple more excursion car pics …

Here are a couple mor yet. First, another one lettered for C&S on an Argentine Central (or A&GP) train in Silver Plume. The number appears to be 123 or 125, but it's not very clear.


Next, another High Bridge photo, with an excursion car still lettered for the Colorado Central.

[Chris Walker]

Hoo Boy, this keeps just getting better all the time!  

Forks of Creek, 1982  



Thanks to Harry Brunk and the Gazette articles I was exposed to the Clear Creek line just before my first US visit in '82.  Until then I had never heard of it, even though I'd read about the South Park and it appeared on the maps. We rented a car on the last day of the convention and headed up on my 1st Pilgrammage of Clear Creek.  Sheesh, driving on the wrong side of the road!!

Note the SectionHouse end C&S Bridge abutment and the rock retaining wall still visible on the opposite creekbank, not all was destroyed in the construction of the original Highway, but they did finish that job when they cemented over the Forks once and for all. {:(

Sorry about the picture quality, this print is in my Trip Album and is covered in a stuck down plastic sheet, and therefore is immovable.

[John Schapekahm]

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[Chris Walker]

In Todd's wonderful picture of the Bridge, note the Hasplock on the gate, just another little detail begging.

[John Schapekahm]

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[Jim Courtney]

Wow, the amazing new photos just keep coming!  Before this post is over there may be enough material here for a book just about Forks Creek.  Too bad Derrell's Uncle Bender didn't make it up Clear Creek--I'd like some more 1909-1910 photos.

[John Schapekahm]

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[Todd Hackett]

John Schapekahm wrote

... is there more to the picture ...

This is getting farther and farther from the original topic of stilts at Forks Creek, but yes:


And in case the shay isn't clear enough in that photo, here is another view of the same train:


These come from a private album that apparently included a day trip to Mt. McLellan. Several of the photos from this album are in the updated "Stairway to the Stars." The people in the group apparently weren't very uncomfortable with heights:

[Chris Walker]

You keep on wowing me Mister, look at the unusual Guardrail set up on the High Bridge !!

[John Schapekahm]

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[Chris Walker]

 John.

Don't be forgetting the Gilpin Tram up at Blackhawk, 3-rail trackage and all.

[John Schapekahm]

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[Todd Hackett]

Now we've moved the Forks Creek thread up to Devil's Gate, then Silver Plume, and now Waldorf.  I guess it make sense to push on up the line to the Ice Palace:


And up to the end of track on Mt. McLellan where we can pose for the obligatory photo (the man standing prominently 2nd from the right has a camera on a tirpod):

[Doug Heitkamp]

Todd,

Thanks for posting the pictures but this one in particular.



I never knew there was a section car shed at Forks Creek, but it makes sense. Great info folks!

Doug

[Doug Heitkamp]

And another...

[Chris Walker]

This thread is so distracting {:))


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/6400/rv/singleitem/rec/9

And another little gem, shown on pg292 of the Sundance  Colorado Central book but not identified as such ....
found on pg212, but printed so small in Trowbridge DSP&P Pict. Sup.  

DSP&P 4-4-0 283 with the WH Jackson special at the "narrows".


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll21/id/12596/rv/singleitem/rec/91

[Chris Walker]

In John's picture the relocated EatingHouse still needed struts under it as modelled by Harry Brunk in his revised Forks Creek.




http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/77677/rv/singleitem/rec/10

[Todd Hackett]

It looks like we're  back to Forks Creek, so here are a few more photos:

This one shows the tracks heading toward Black Hawk, apparently before the wye went in:


Another view before the back of the wye was completed. The second image is a close-up of what appears to be some grading and tripod with a case that could be either surveying or photo equipment.



Now here's one after the wye was complete, but still very early. Note the flatcar in the close-up with the load carefully stacked over the bolsters. It doesn't appear to have any sort of automatic brake.



These two Charles Weitfle views aren't from my collection, but from Wikimedia Commons (Here, and here):




I was going to include  a couple of late color views from Al Chione slides, one titled "70 switching at Forks Creek on 5-4-41" and the second "71 switching at Forks Creek" dated 5-30-39, but the copyrights are from 2009, so they are still protected. They come from set G-1. Each is a close-up views of a train on the back of the wye, and neither shows much other than the train and a part of a bridge.