Re: What warrants a depot

Posted by Keith Hayes on Mar 27, 2019; 2:10pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/What-warrants-a-depot-tp13700p13708.html

I am guessing here, but depots were a combination of need, demand and sometimes speculation. Leadville complained for years until UP built the brick depot. I bet the South Park built the Ft. Logan-type depots hoping that the line would generate real estate sales and eventually revenue rather than the sleepy ranch traffic the Morrison line saw. Platte Canon has a fair amount of seasonal traffic requiring the many passenger shelters and depots. We also forget about the agency business which required Agents who worked for the railroad and Express company moving freight and goods. This would have included ice, stone and mine props in the Canon. And there is the operational consideration: where do you need a body to monitor and assist with train movements?

Mike and Jim and Espee can now continue the conversation about the Dillon-Dickey-Frisco triumvirate of stations, listening to the Greatful Dead and other rites of passage.