Re: Hortense Spout, or Kenosha Spout?

Posted by Dave Eggleston on Aug 13, 2024; 10:13pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Following-the-C-S-Ry-from-St-Elmo-to-Alpine-Fisher-video-tp18895p20028.html

Historic in terms of "historic to the railroad" or "historic to Colorado"?

Fisher was the new name for Alpine station in the later 1890s. There was a depot (a near clone of those at St Elmo and Hancock) and water tank (a near clone of the one at Hancock and Lady Murphy) in 1881, the tank burned in 1888. I suspect the station went into slow decay well before 1900. Alpine was already on shaky ground when the South Park built up Chalk Creek. As the end of track for a few months it flourished briefly. A mill and smelter were there for a time but it lost prominence quickly to St Elmo by 1881/1882.

A 2-story section house was upgrade between Alpine and St Elmo and that structure doesn't look like it--or it's heavily modified.

That building doesn't look like a railroad structure to me or it is massively reworked.