Re: Kenosha -- Ghost of C&S "Three Bent Tank"?

Posted by Jim Courtney on
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I ran across this familiar image on eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Colorado-Southern-C-S-Engine-73-at-the-Kenosha-Pass-Co-in-1938-8x10-Photo/302837997367?hash=item46828d1f37%3Ag%3A3aAAAOSw54xUVe4P&_sop=10&_nkw=colorado+%26+southern&_sacat=35975&rt=nc&LH_TitleDesc=1




C&S 73 is heading a westbound scrapper's supply train, about to crest Kenosha summit, just east of the little lake at the top of the grade. This photograph has been attributed to both Jackson and Gibson (maybe both shot the same view, they were traveling together that day).

I've admired this photo in my books for years. Every time I leave the parking area at the top of the pass, and begin the drive back east toward Denver, I glance off to the right and imagine number 73 about to crest the summit.

This eBay image is of better resolution than any of my books and I noticed something that I hadn't before: Just to the left of the second flat car in the consist is a group of piers, arranged in three rows, to my eye two in front and back and three, maybe four, in the middle.

So I wondered, could these be piers for an abandoned "three bent tank" that once served the summit at Kenosha??





It was always my understanding that C&S road engines and helpers took water on either side of the pass at Webster to the east and Jefferson to the west. I've looked back through all my books, including Poor's station list. No mention of a water tank at this location.

Does anyone know of any record of a small water tank at this location??
Rick Steele, any mention of a water tank at Kenosha in the B&B books -- the copy in the "Files" section seems to have disappeared.

If these aren't piers for a water tank, what could they be for, located track side in the middle of no where (tho' the scenery is spectacular)?