Re: Cars Spotted At Mid-Town Mills.

Posted by Jim Courtney on Nov 06, 2022; 10:08pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Idaho-Springs-Mid-Town-Ore-Processing-Part-3-tp2512p18151.html

Wow, Chris! Wow, wow, wow!!

How did you manipulate and enlarge the blurry photo that we perseverated about, in the link that you posted to the earlier thread?? Did you find another higher resolution copy of the same photo? However you used your photo editing skills, your enlargements of the freight cars in Idaho Springs are incredible. There is a wealth of new info for the first decade C&S freight car enthusiast, that deserves lengthy discussion. Rather than bury the freight car discussion in this, the mid-town Idaho springs ore processing thread, I will be creating a new thread, once I've double check my notes, photos and books.

One observation: The presence of a boxcar still lettered and numbered for the UPD&G helps date the overall photo to a pretty narrow time window. Dave Eggleston kindly shared ORERs for the first years of the new C&S. The ORER for February, 1902, still lists cars of two classes of inherited UPD&G boxcars not yet re-lettered for the C&S. The next ORER from December, 1902, shows no box cars till carrying original UPD&G lettering. (Although one of the early 1898 new St Charles box cars wasn't re-lettered until early 1904.)




So I believe that your photo of mid-town Idaho Springs dates somewhere between summer / fall of 1899 to summer / fall of 1902.

Join me later today to discuss the wonderful freight car enlargements on the new thread . . .