Re: Draft Layout Plans: Black Hawk C&S / Gilpin Tram

Posted by drgwcs on Feb 27, 2025; 5:51pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Draft-Layout-Plans-Black-Hawk-C-S-Gilpin-Tram-tp20518p20536.html

Martin Wade wrote

Hi Jim,

These are just awesome pictures.   I saw some of them over on the Facebook from some of the links you previous sent me (especially on the station).   The detail you have in the station and then in the Mill at the end are fantastic and since I am doing HOn3 set a high challenge bar on what can be done.
This is the first time, I noticed the "flume and cover" that you modeled on Clear Creek.   That will be a great reference.
As noted, I cheated and flipped the Station so the Creek and Passenger loading is up front.   Simple modeler's license based on aesthetics vs realism that my wife and I chose for the layout.

Thanks so much for sharing your pictures.  Great inspiration.

Martin Wade

Thanks so much- I had actually gathered most of the posts on the build in one guide- it does not cover the Bobtail though- that is a whole other can of worms (actually a couple of bait shops)

http://https://www.facebook.com/groups/ColoradoandSouthernNarrowGauge/learning_content/?filter=479737627982222&post=2298893360265109

I wound up "smearing the time line" pretty good too. I am almost sure that the Colorado House, the Colorado Shoe and boarding house  were gone sometime in the 20's. You were mentioning the lumberyard and hay grain (barn) building- that is my one regret that I had to omit these. The frame building next to the Bull Durham is still a bit of a mystery (I would love to see the plaque there- might enlighten us a bit) It is labeled as "R" for residence in the Sanborn Maps but I wonder from the upper door if it had something to do with the lumberyard- however there was a fence between. The lumberyard may have been associated with this building or with the hay grain building. I have not seen any indication of signage on the buildings so I guess it is an academic question that does not matter in modeling them.



Mine was a kitbash out of a grandt line last chance kit- the front became the back and I built a new front. I also swapped the sides. The lean to on the back is rather foreshortened. The white parts are evergreen while the gray parts are the kit. The back wound up as a flat on the other side of the street that was very close to an actual building.





The Hay Grain building (The barn building) actually survived the station and was moved across the street. The lumberyard and station area became a giant placer mining pit. The building is the brown one on the left.



It shows as white in a lot of early pics.