Re: Idaho Springs Tank

Posted by Chris Walker on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Idaho-Springs-Tank-tp1316p1473.html

Oh dear, John.  I can't but help wonder if you actually read my words.

John Schapekahm wrote

Chris - After your insistence on having oil burner #70 a Como regular (proven to your satisfaction by Denver shadows as I recall), I probably should have known better than to have questioned your ardent “Argo Denialism” with respect to the C&S eastside tank.

What I said there, now in bold, the key word is guessing you may refer back to original thread link if you wish.
From this thread http://c-sn3-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/Love-me-tender-With-apologies-to-Elvis-td499i20.html

Chris Walker wrote

Feb 01, 2015; 1:27pm
Then I shouldn't show this beauty then?
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/42584/rv/singleitem/rec/161

How far can #70 go on that tank of Oil? I'm only guessing that this a Como run.  I can't see that if #70 couldn't make Como, why she would be the road loco?  Things to ponder eh!

I can from past experience, relate a few incidents where we swapped Loco's halfway, turned and put it on the opposing train and sent it back where it came from.  I was just, just wondering, not that I said so, if that could have been the case with that picture, which to me, did not fit with leaving Denver for the Clear Creek Line.  

John Schapekahm wrote

** As an aside, you say the Newhouse Tunnel was completed by 1904? Funny, as far as I recall, the consensus is the Newhouse (Argo) Tunnel completed boring, 4.16 miles from Idaho Springs to Central City, in 1910. A quick double check seems to confirm 1910. See, e.g. Brunk, NG&SL Gazette, November/December 1982, Up Clear Creek on the Narrow Gauge, Part 17, Argo Tunnel – The Mill; see also http://historicargotours.com/our-history/. I’d be interested in your source(s) to the contrary.

From the same Nov/Dec 1982 Gazette article by Harry Brunk, here's the actual text so you can re-read it, Harry said 1904


As for the rest of your response, too many big words for me I'm afraid.

Simply put, IF what you are saying about the Tank being removed/relocated for possible future expansion of the tunnel waste rock pile then please elaborate on why this area continued to have more and more houses built there and check with googlestreetview as to how many of those still exist today?  The Street you want is Wall Street, that shows in the background of this next picture taken by the Natatorium.

Oh look, the Tank...not many houses.
 
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/7133/rv/singleitem

Still more houses...no Tank though.
 
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/3293/rv/singleitem

And still more houses...

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/90657/rv/singleitem/rec/7