Re: Alpine Tunnel Construction Camps

Posted by Dave Eggleston on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Alpine-Tunnel-Construction-Camps-tp19236p19285.html

Jim and Todd:

Jim, thanks for the image posting.  Mea Culpa for not adding it. Sorry.

Todd, like you, I'd read the first image as correct because of the lettering (also properly legible on the side of the car in one image I've seen). My reading of the image has always been that the flanger is on the siding, not wye, given how it is oriented next to the business car.

Matt:

That is a section of the ICC map and is showing the wye as built in 1903. I got a physical copy from the CO RR Museum but someone on one of the yahoo groups posted scans years ago.

All:

Am I missing a wye track in that DL&G photo? Here's what I'm seeing, overlaid on the later ICC map.



If I am missing the DL&G-era wye, where is it seen in that photo?  If the flanger is sitting on it the water tank would be inside it, if I understand correctly. And this DL&G-era wye is not in the same place as the 1903 wye on the ICC map--from my reading of things.

If a DL&G wye isn't seen in that photo, then we have even less evidence of a wye prior to 1903, only our own hindsight arguing for it as common sense. This is not saying there wasn't a wye before 1903, just that I haven't found any solid evidence of one yet.