Re: What warrants a depot

Posted by Mike Trent on Mar 26, 2019; 9:08pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/What-warrants-a-depot-tp13700p13702.html

Oddly, the story of the Dickey/Dillon/Frisco area is interesting, in that Dickey was where the Keystone Subdivision became what was originally thought to be the Mainline to Leadville when South Park Engineers decided after completing the line to Dillon, to run the mainline instead off the end of the Dickey wye, and bypassed the town of Frisco completely, running along the South edge of town through the woods. The C&S Depot at Frisco was a boxcar set on the ground to the West of town. It was there that passengers boarded and disembarked at Frisco. Dickey had a depot, although Darel says it was reduced in size after the South (East, by Railroad definition) end was demolished by a string of runaway cars. Dillon had a nice Depot, but Frisco had a boxcar, and the Dickey Depot was closed after 1929. The Frisco Boxcar was probably also closed, as by then travel from Frisco to Dillon was less complicated in the age of automobiles. Despite the fact that John Elway could probably have thrown a football from Frisco to Dillon. Had he been around, of course.

Anyway, three depots in an amazingly small area. And the one at Dillon, not even on the mainline, was the only one used at the time of abandonment.