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

Posted by Dave Eggleston on Mar 06, 2025; 9:02pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Draft-Layout-Plans-Black-Hawk-C-S-Gilpin-Tram-tp20518p20556.html

Big changes were slow to happen but catastrophic changes, that's different and Blackhawk was susceptible to flooding out. So we know the big events--traffic curtailment, dropping of trains to Central, abandonment attempts, final abandonment and dismantlement of the Central branch. There's just a dark period, when the ore traffic woke up in the mid-30s and I strongly believe AFEs must have been cut for the flood repair and the ore dock (which I currently kbelieve pre-dates the flume wash out), as well as the movement of the yard to the east in late 1940. Whether or not these exist maybe will be answered in the future--the AFEs may be at CRM.

The photos open up a great deal of clues that really either point to the valuation date being off or to some other unknowns being revealed. The important thing is questioning when something seems not quite right.