Re: Dillon / Keystone Operations Revisited

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Freight-trains-at-Dillon-or-Keystone-tp1868p17645.html

Chris seems to be enjoying the resurrection of very old, long dead threads. I thought that I'd join him.

I finally found a photo of a C&S freight train at Dillon!!




The photo is from the Gibbony Family Collection and is found on page 108 of the Klingers' newest book. I missed it on my first two reads of the book.

The Como spark arrestor on number 73 dates the photo to somewhere between 1912 to 1918. The freight is headed back to Dickey, locomotive first, trailing a single box car and what looks to be the smoke jack of a caboose back there. The train is stopped at the Dillon depot platform. The assembled crew and station personnel are longer than the train.

The train may have backed up from Dickey, switched the house track and reassembled its short train for the return. If the train in actually returning from Keystone, was the wye still in service up there? The 1918 valuation map shows it out of service at that date.