Re: 1903 C&S Souvenir Tourist Pamphlet

Posted by Jim Courtney on Jun 04, 2020; 8:49pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/1903-C-S-Souvenir-Tourist-Pamphlet-tp15701p15705.html

Thank you, Todd, for further filling out this thread!

It is interesting that the so-called "Button" emblem of the C&S dates to the earliest corporate days of the railroad. Did it acutually start out as "buttons" on the passenger crews uniforms? But it didn't make it to the freight car fleet until the mid to late 1920's. Its use on published material is contemporary with the "Columbine" emblem and preceded the C&S "Block" emblem (first appeared in 1907). Wonder why?

From 1899 to 1925, the C&S seemed to like big "billboard" lettering on the house car fleet, first the "Colorado Road" scheme, then the "Block Monogram" scheme.  The block Gothic lettering convention was also used on subsidiary FW&D house cars, and both showed up just before the CB&Q acquisition of both railroads in late 1908. I'm not aware that the CB&Q used similar large block lettering -- did it?

The time table is very helpful in planning operations on a Breckenridge layout, c.1901-1909. Not only does is show the schedules of the passenger "express", numbers 71 and 72, but also the mixed trains, numbers 81 and 82. The express (#72) departed Leadville east bound at 9:00 AM, the eastbound mixed (#82) five minutes later. Eastbound number 72 made it to the Breckenridge station stop just before noon. The east bound mixed 82 didn't showed up at the Breck depot until almost two hours later at 1:40 PM. Shortly after its departure, climbing up the Boreas grade, it had to get in the clear at Mayo Spur, to meet the afternoon westbound express number (#71), with train 71 then descending into Breckenridge to make its scheduled station stop at just before 3:00 PM. given operational delays over Fremont Pass, 82 and 71 likely were in Breckenridge at the same time.

Westbound mixed train 81 seems to have made its entire journey to Leadville in the dark, arriving at the western terminal about the time the sun came up.

So it looks like I need to add a couple of combines to my rosters to build, one for 1901 and another for 1909--or were the mixed trains abolished by 1909??