Re: C&S Photos on eBay: That Location: Mis-located.

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Photos-on-eBay-tp8859p10567.html

Chris,

The Klingers' C&S Platte Canon Memories . . . has a chapter on scrapping operations.

They reference two photographers following 58 with the scrapping train, Dick Kindig and H.R. Griffiths as having followed the train on August 5 and August 21, 1938.

These two photos were in the Ten Mile, near Solitude:



H.R. Griffiths photo.



Richard Kindig photo.


The 58 hasn't been made up with chalk yet.

Then there is this photo, dated to August 21st, east of Breckenridge:





The location is cited as on Boreas, near MP 107. And there's the chalking that you mentioned.

Per the text, C&S 58 was in charge of pulling the actual scrap train. C&S 71 was in charge of switching out the flatcars of rail, when a siding was reached, then hauling a train of rail down to Dome Rock, returning the empties. A C&S crew (the scrap trains were operated by the contractor, likely with laid off C&S engine crews) would haul the rail from Dome Rock into Denver. C&S 70 is shown in several photos hauling rail from Dome Rock to Denver.


Happy New Year to you, too.  You always seem to get a head start on everything!