Re: D&RG Grading Through Platte Canyon...

Posted by chtrout on
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Jeff Young wrote

Yeah, if they were headed for Trout Creek Canon via Trout Creek Pass then the salt works would have been more or less on the way.

A lot of people at the time seemed to expect lots of traffic out of the salt works -- but it never worked out that way.

I don't think the "Salt Works" area was ever envisioned as a source of D&RG freight revenue, but rather as a well-established familiar landmark since the 1860s. Nearby DSP&P "Platte River Station" had been a major freighting load-out (inbound supplies for, and outbound silver bullion and such from the Leadville District, but then dwindled down to disuse after completion of the DSP&P line down Trout Creek, and a period of very brief "joint operations" with the D&RG into Leadville.