Re: DSP&P/CC/UPD&G/DL&G/C&S "Timeline"

Posted by Dave Eggleston on Mar 26, 2025; 11:34pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/DSP-P-CC-UPD-G-DL-G-C-S-Timeline-tp20624p20638.html

Thanks for doing this Darel!

I have a few thoughts/questions. I'll post them here at the risk of messing up the thread with this conversation. Please purge this if its not the right place.

1- I can't edit Jeff's post so is my only choice to create a new post? I fear this risks causing the timeline to become disjointed and hard to follow. Could editing a post be expanded to specific individuals or is that too difficult to manage? Ideas?

2- To help keep things focused, do we want another thread where people can ask timeline questions, suggest edits, report problems so as to preserve the timeline sticky as just information with no side chatter?

3 - Are people looking for pure dates with simple text entries? This seems a good way to keep things under control. Are there preferences?

4- Sources should be mandatory, in my mind. Information I'd be sharing isn't necessarily from a given book but possibly from photos, company documents, public documents or period newspapers. Rather than footnotes I would prefer to add these citations in parentheses at the end of each item. Yays or nays?

5- Do we want/need any vetting/editing prior to posting? And, dare I say it, rules/suggestions on entry format and length?

I would like to contribute what I can at a high level for the things I've researched on the South Park, Colorado Central, GSL&P and UP subs in the 1872-1898 period. The question will be how much detail is "high level." To me, knowing the monthly progress of track and equipment acquired during the Leadville boom period of 1878-1880 could be interesting. Same with the expansion from BV to Baldwin or the development of Blackhawk and Central. For other folks, not so much. It can be argued in the early years a lot happened quickly then things slowed to a more sane pace.