Yet Another DPL Gem: Unseen Clear Creek.

[Justin Kerns]

Newbie here - first time chiming in after many months of lurking and absorbing.  

With respect to the Georgetown photo Jim posted the car on the far right is a Scripps-Booth.  No aftermarket parts on it that I can see.  The car next to and somewhat behind it is a Dodge Brothers.  Both are touring cars and both are either 1915 or 1916.

Scripps-Booth by the way was an expensive and rare car.  Fewer than 20 are known to survive today.  Some bigshot must have brought it to Georgetown that day.  Perhaps a railroad exec?

[Don Gustavson II]

Welcome Justin.

[Jeff Young]

Cool stuff, Justin.

That probably nails down the date of that picture pretty tightly: the lack of a Ridgway cinder catcher on #8 suggests 1918 or earlier while the autos dictate 1915 or later.

Cheers,
Jeff

[Chris Walker]

Some bigshot must have brought it to Georgetown that day.  Perhaps a railroad exec?

I would think the C&S management were frugal especially at this time period, however Mining bigwigs with cash were always on the lookout for the "next" big strike.

[Jim Courtney]

Welcome Justin!

Thanks for helping to date that wonderful photo.

[John Greenly]

Here's an odd photo.  I have no information about it beyond the inscription you see.  It's an un-sent 3x5 photo postcard.  Sort of a strange image to make a postcard of, with the bridge girder dominating the scene at an awkward angle.  Somebody snapped a photo out of the window of a moving train and the girder happened to sneak into the shot?  I guess that's smoke from the engine in the view too.



Hope you can see the rail line by the creek under the word"canon', and what appears to be a switch stand, just under the final "n" .

Where is this?

John G

[Chris Walker]

 John,
Pretty certain this is Elk Creek, the siding was just upstream from the creek crossing.  Nice find!
 

[Jeff Young]

Hi Chris,

What’s the structure in the photo you posted?  Section house?

Cheers,
Jeff.

[Chris Walker]

Yes Jeff, the Sectionhouse.....
http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/Elk-Creek-Tank-or-Every-Now-and-Then-I-Get-Lucky-tp1294.html


(I forgot to add)  W.H.Jackson photo

[John Greenly]

Thanks, Chris!

I was suspecting Elk Creek but thinking I should see the water tank in my photo.  I see from your great DPL find on your Elk Creek Water Tank thread that the bridge actually pointed almost directly toward the tank, so the tank would be well off the righthand side of my photo.  

Cheers,
John

[South Park]

  A friend sent this photo to me.  I have not seen this one before
and thought of Chris' fascination with mills.  Thought I would
share it here.

[Chris Walker]

Thanks Sth,Park,  great picture from the Colorado School of Mines eh?



Newer readers may like to learn more about the Seaton Mountain Heat & Light  http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/Pipes-on-Flats-tp2980p3005.html

and the I.S.Reduction Co Concentrating Mill, http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/Idaho-Springs-Mid-Town-Ore-Processing-Part-2-tp2167.html

[Chris Walker]

These fit here better.

[Jim Courtney]

Great photo, Chris,

Note the duck billed combine behind C&S #6.  The door seems rather narrow for a baggage door.

Is this an early iteration of one of the RPO coaches??

Maybe Ken Martin can I.D. it for us.

[Robert McFarland]

#26?The one in the London Jct. Mason Bogie picture.

[Chris Walker]

Randomly speaking of the London Jct picture with the Bogie, did you notice that there is a C.C. Boxcar on the head?

Jim, the Clear Creek pic I posted above has a Deja Vu feel for me, have you posted that one before??

[Jim Courtney]

No Chris, this is a new one for me.

I did post a photo of C&S #6 as an oil burner as it passed the Argo Tunnel at Idaho Springs, a photo form the Klingers' Clear Creek book:

http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/Denver-NNGC-Notes-Book-Reports-td9326.html

[Ken Martin]

Jim,

No I think the door is a trick of the lighting. It is combine 30 (old #150) before they rebuilt it. You have to use the windows to identify it. The second car is an old Bowers Dure car No. 50-52.

Ken Martin

[Chris Walker]

I'd like to share with you this previously unpublished(to my knowledge) photo of Elk Creek congestion.

Charles E. Emory photo.

[Chris Walker]

Another interesting shot, one I almost dismissed as being at the Plume.