Re: C&S Photos on eBay: Up Clear Creek c.1925

Posted by Jim Courtney on Mar 07, 2021; 6:34am
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A couple of weeks ago I did some eBay bidding on several pages from an old photo album--unfortunately I lost.

Evidently, the owner of the album took a trip to Denver in the mid-1920s and made the C&S excursion up Clear Creek to the Loop and Silver Plume. The photos are not great in terms of quality, likely an inexpensive camera with slow shutter speeds. The eBay reproductions are certainly not high resolution. But there are some interesting details:



Our intrepid tourist detrained and climbed down the bank of Clear Creek for this shot of the train stopped for water at Elk Creek.




Taken from the last car of the train, crossing the iron bridge at Forks, the connecting train to Blackhawk is to the left, now only a locomotive and combine.




A couple of photos in Clear Creek Canon. Proof that the flat topped excursion cars were still in use as late as the mid 1920s.



The obligatory shot of the High Bridge.




The train spotted on the tail of the Silver Plume wye. The locomotive appears to be C&S number 5. Clock tower is at right.
The Pavilion is now labeled simply "Lunch Room".  



On return to Denver, the Blackhawk combine at Forks caught the interest of our photographer. The car looks in need of a new paint job, can't make out a number--is it number 29?



This overexposed photo is the most interesting to me. I believe it is Elk Creek from the rear of the train, but it looks much more crowded than in other photos, with the car body next to the water tank and the pump house with the huge stack.

Wouldn't you love to have taken that trip??