Re: Here is location of 1st Como Depot
Posted by John Droste on
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Dave,
From memory, I found the photo in the Como Depot & Roundhouse Facebook page.
Just looking now I found some photos explaining that Como was once a town by another name.
I had predicted this recently in my other posts.
Whilst a member of the DSP&P HS I was informed of these things;
North end of the depot was the Ice House. Also the Post Office.
The reasoning given that the Ice House was then presumed to be behind the current depot and Pacific Hotel. This of coarse is a ludicrous suggestion. And the Post Office???
Also, early distances to Como were longer and then the distance was made shorter. It was presumed that the track had been realigned somewhere along the way making the distance shorter. No other stops had their distances altered however.
Common sense would place the depot below the township on the ideal level grounds which the railroad had gained from the town. Only a water tank was placed here though, a track each side and what seems to have been a platform before it was covered in rubble. The Waste of the Engine House and Tenement buildings construction.
My M. Blazek, Como workbook is packed away but here is a photo also from the CD & RH Facebook page which shows recent works and prior track positioning. In that it shows more clearly that the current depot is straight across from where the building across the way was.
I doubt it was a warehouse. If I am correct all round in that case there were then three depot's in Como. maybe it was just a railroad car at first. That happened.
Notice how where the location of the Gilman Hotel which was a whole basement deep inside the curve of R o W is in exact alignment with Rowe street which was the main road south at that time.
John
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Dave,
From memory, I found the photo in the Como Depot & Roundhouse Facebook page.
Just looking now I found some photos explaining that Como was once a town by another name.
I had predicted this recently in my other posts.
Whilst a member of the DSP&P HS I was informed of these things;
North end of the depot was the Ice House. Also the Post Office.
The reasoning given that the Ice House was then presumed to be behind the current depot and Pacific Hotel. This of coarse is a ludicrous suggestion. And the Post Office???
Also, early distances to Como were longer and then the distance was made shorter. It was presumed that the track had been realigned somewhere along the way making the distance shorter. No other stops had their distances altered however.
Common sense would place the depot below the township on the ideal level grounds which the railroad had gained from the town. Only a water tank was placed here though, a track each side and what seems to have been a platform before it was covered in rubble. The Waste of the Engine House and Tenement buildings construction.
My M. Blazek, Como workbook is packed away but here is a photo also from the CD & RH Facebook page which shows recent works and prior track positioning. In that it shows more clearly that the current depot is straight across from where the building across the way was.
I doubt it was a warehouse. If I am correct all round in that case there were then three depot's in Como. maybe it was just a railroad car at first. That happened.
Notice how where the location of the Gilman Hotel which was a whole basement deep inside the curve of R o W is in exact alignment with Rowe street which was the main road south at that time.
John
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