Ride the C&S over Rocky Point: 2018 video

[Kurt Maechner]

Imagine riding the Colorado & Southern Railway upgrade from Como, over the summit of Boreas Pass on the way to Breckenridge, Colorado.  In this video, I walked one of the few portions of the right-of-way that was not turned into an auto road.  The video includes the grade before the restored track, then the track itself, and a little bit beyond the end of it.  

Enjoy!
Kurt

[ComoDepot]

We may take the Hand Car up there next year for Railroad Day.

[Kurt Maechner]

When I was up there, I thought, "Wow, I hope they have a way to stop a hand car at the end of the track because it's a loooong way down!" :)

[Chris Walker]

Wasn't this location actually known as Windy Point? Rocky Point being on the Breckenridge side and notated on USGS Topographical Maps. USFS sign calls it Rocky, don't they have this wrong?

[ComoDepot]

Windy Point is the next one up.

[Todd Hackett]

ComoDepot wrote

We may take the Hand Car up there next year for Railroad Day.

I hope not.  It isn't very safe to run it down such a steep grade with a bunch of people on it who don't know what they're doing. I always gave a briefing on how to keep it under control going downhill telling them to "push down when the handle it's coming up and pull up when it's going down", and more often than not most of them would do the opposite leaving me to resist their work and the pull of gravity on the car and all the riders. The brakes are better suited to holding it than slowing it, as someone found out last year when they peeled the rubber lining off using them to stop the handcar. At least that happen on the relatively level track in Como, which is where it should be used.