Re: Stanley Mills: Part Three. Stanley Hotel Flagstop. Addendum.
Posted by drgwcs on Jul 19, 2024; 2:23pm
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Bringing back an old thread-great info Chris. I was digging through the Colorado School of Mines website and came upon this photo of the Stanley that included another photo of the little flag stop and the bridge. This one actually gives us a date- July 1931 so it was still there.
https://repository.mines.edu/handle/11124/173328
Better view (the link to the website has a higher resolution)
Here is a zoom in of the flagstop
Looking at the bridge from the side with its really spindly construction one can see how it would easily be interpreted as a pipe bridge. It really looks like one from that angle. The "handrails" as such just do not show up in a distant picture. A photo of it in Georgetown and the Loop p 102 was the inspiration for an article by Harry Brunk in 2004 on a pipe bridge. (may be the same as the first one of course he did not have the enlargement to work off of then.) The presence of the flagstop is what makes it apparent what it is and it wasn't in that photo. Of course as we all know the best way to get new info to surface is to build a model of it. Harry had a far better record than me- it took 12 years to appear after that article and now we are 20 years later. For me new info generally shows up about a week or so after I complete the model.
Do we have a date for the construction of the flagstop? Obviously it was not there at one point even though the bridge was there. In any event Stanley does show up as a timetable location this is from my 1897 UPD&G timetable.
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The previously unknown Stanley (Mills?) Flagstop. At the time of the great Yellow paint splurge, which co-incided with the name change from The Stanley Consolidated Mines Co. to The Stanley Mines Co., the ground was prepared for the new Flagstop: note the small trestle Br. No. 14 on the curve, this crossed the 18" gauge minetrack into the Crockett Tunnel. 12lb rail was still in place there at the time of the 1939 valuation survey indicating some reworking during the 1930's. Also of note is the Suspension Footbridge, which is just that, not a "pipe" support structure.
MCC-368 http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/77738/rv/singleitem/rec/16
Lachlan McLean photo
enlarged to show the details of this little building.
Lachlan McLean photo
X-60762 http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/36555/rv/singleitem/rec/51
From A History Of Clear Creek County. 2004. Historical Soc. of I.S.
X-60762 http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/36555/rv/singleitem/rec/51
Bringing back an old thread-great info Chris. I was digging through the Colorado School of Mines website and came upon this photo of the Stanley that included another photo of the little flag stop and the bridge. This one actually gives us a date- July 1931 so it was still there.
https://repository.mines.edu/handle/11124/173328
Better view (the link to the website has a higher resolution)
Here is a zoom in of the flagstop
Looking at the bridge from the side with its really spindly construction one can see how it would easily be interpreted as a pipe bridge. It really looks like one from that angle. The "handrails" as such just do not show up in a distant picture. A photo of it in Georgetown and the Loop p 102 was the inspiration for an article by Harry Brunk in 2004 on a pipe bridge. (may be the same as the first one of course he did not have the enlargement to work off of then.) The presence of the flagstop is what makes it apparent what it is and it wasn't in that photo. Of course as we all know the best way to get new info to surface is to build a model of it. Harry had a far better record than me- it took 12 years to appear after that article and now we are 20 years later. For me new info generally shows up about a week or so after I complete the model.
Do we have a date for the construction of the flagstop? Obviously it was not there at one point even though the bridge was there. In any event Stanley does show up as a timetable location this is from my 1897 UPD&G timetable.
Jim Curran
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