C&S Water Tank at Blackhawk and the "Three Bent Water Tanks".

Posted by Jim Courtney on Jul 04, 2018; 3:00am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Water-Tank-at-Blackhawk-and-the-Three-Bent-Water-Tanks-tp11993.html

Vintage C&S photos are fascinating, the ones without captions, labels and dates become puzzles -- brain teasers, making me want to figure out where the photo was taken, what year, and what prompted the photographer to expend a then expensive piece of film on that particular image.

I recently stumbled on a new photo (to me) on eBay:
 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Colorado-Southern-C-S-Engine-6-at-the-French-Gulch-Water-Tower-8x10-Photo/292614857397?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

So, I purchased a print to post here, for us to discuss:



Photographer unknown, photo now in Courtney Collection


After studying the photo for a couple of days, and checking several of my C&S books for reference, I am confidant that I can now locate the photo, give the precise date (month/day/year) and place the event that inspired the photo.

Let's see if ya'll come to the same conclusions that I did . . .