Re: Following the C&S Ry. from St. Elmo to Alpine/Fisher-video
Posted by Dave Eggleston on Jul 12, 2023; 5:31pm
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Kurt,
Here is one from 1880/1881 in happy times, when Alpine was still the railhead (or just slightly after the railhead moved to St Elmo), when the South Park and D&RG both ran multiple daily trains from BV to this point. South Park construction trains pushed up Chalk Creek. UP control of the line was just looming or had just begun. The Tunnel was in the future, the D&RG was moving on its own line to Gunnison. Leadville had only recently been linked to Denver by rail. This was the height of the South Park's prosperity and dreams.
https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/3427/rec/37
This is one of two photos taken from this location on this day, minutes apart. In the other, the horse cart on the crossing in front of the tank isn't there. DPL has a few copies.
The station is of the same design as would be seen at St Elmo, Hancock (later Romley) and in larger form at Pitkin. Room sizes and arrangements varied among these buildings.
The town is off frame, down from the tracks on the right by Chalk Creek. At this time a mill was still active here. Things would rapidly decline as St Elmo was reached and that location became the focal business point of the canyon.
Ferrell has a different image in his South Park book during DSP&P or maybe DL&G days, of trains passing here, but I believe IIRC (my copy is packed away) he mislabled it as St Elmo.
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Kurt,
Here is one from 1880/1881 in happy times, when Alpine was still the railhead (or just slightly after the railhead moved to St Elmo), when the South Park and D&RG both ran multiple daily trains from BV to this point. South Park construction trains pushed up Chalk Creek. UP control of the line was just looming or had just begun. The Tunnel was in the future, the D&RG was moving on its own line to Gunnison. Leadville had only recently been linked to Denver by rail. This was the height of the South Park's prosperity and dreams.
https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/3427/rec/37
This is one of two photos taken from this location on this day, minutes apart. In the other, the horse cart on the crossing in front of the tank isn't there. DPL has a few copies.
The station is of the same design as would be seen at St Elmo, Hancock (later Romley) and in larger form at Pitkin. Room sizes and arrangements varied among these buildings.
The town is off frame, down from the tracks on the right by Chalk Creek. At this time a mill was still active here. Things would rapidly decline as St Elmo was reached and that location became the focal business point of the canyon.
Ferrell has a different image in his South Park book during DSP&P or maybe DL&G days, of trains passing here, but I believe IIRC (my copy is packed away) he mislabled it as St Elmo.
Dave Eggleston
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
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