Re: Help Identify this C&S Water Tank
Posted by Jim Courtney on Oct 14, 2015; 3:54pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Help-Identify-this-C-S-Water-Tank-tp3647p3651.html
Wow, Bob Stears is right. The passengers, even the guy on the tender, look to be African American. This photo was listed for sale separately from these other two, obviously taken on the same day, during an excursion up to the Loop and Silver Plume.
If so, then these photos may help date the first photo, Jeff:
I really like this photo. Aside from the obvious appeal for us C&S fans, it stands alone as a great photo on its own merits. The striking African American woman with the turban, stands in the door way of an excursion car with one marker, gazing at the mountains. A black gentleman in a pork-pie hat sits inside the car at the rear window. Five black youths, apparently bored with the scenery, loiter on the end platform. Some seem to be wearing those odd stockings or leggings that WWI doughboys wore. The conductor awaits time for departure to Denver--standing apart from the black passengers, he suggests the segregation of the era.
The depot in the distance is still in the light scheme. Rhode Island 62 still has a wood pilot and "intermediate" tender, so I would guess the photo to be early 1920s. The 62 is on the spot, on the crossover track between the mainline and the house track, with its Ridgeway spark arrestor folded down.
This photo was advertised as "Number 71 in Como", but think it was also taken in Silver Plume, on the same day, by the same photographer:
The surrounding scenery looks like the north end of Silver Plume, with the 71 spotted on the east end of the house track, just east of the depot. The spur to the coal bin and stock yard is just visible near the tender. Number 71 also has its spark arrestor folded down.
Makes you wonder, why all this heavy power in Silver Plume? Helpers on a multi-section excursion? Perhaps, as Bob speculated, a church outing? Or maybe some early NAACP type convention in Denver with a day trip up Clear Creek? Or maybe 62 and 71 are the power and helper on the Clear Creek local freight, the power spotted while the crews take lunch?
BTW Chris, if we have established that all three photos are on Clear Creek, why couldn't the top photo be Georgetown, the train westbound? Wasn't there a section house just west of the Georgetown tank?
Jim
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Help-Identify-this-C-S-Water-Tank-tp3647p3651.html
Wow, Bob Stears is right. The passengers, even the guy on the tender, look to be African American. This photo was listed for sale separately from these other two, obviously taken on the same day, during an excursion up to the Loop and Silver Plume.
If so, then these photos may help date the first photo, Jeff:
I really like this photo. Aside from the obvious appeal for us C&S fans, it stands alone as a great photo on its own merits. The striking African American woman with the turban, stands in the door way of an excursion car with one marker, gazing at the mountains. A black gentleman in a pork-pie hat sits inside the car at the rear window. Five black youths, apparently bored with the scenery, loiter on the end platform. Some seem to be wearing those odd stockings or leggings that WWI doughboys wore. The conductor awaits time for departure to Denver--standing apart from the black passengers, he suggests the segregation of the era.
The depot in the distance is still in the light scheme. Rhode Island 62 still has a wood pilot and "intermediate" tender, so I would guess the photo to be early 1920s. The 62 is on the spot, on the crossover track between the mainline and the house track, with its Ridgeway spark arrestor folded down.
This photo was advertised as "Number 71 in Como", but think it was also taken in Silver Plume, on the same day, by the same photographer:
The surrounding scenery looks like the north end of Silver Plume, with the 71 spotted on the east end of the house track, just east of the depot. The spur to the coal bin and stock yard is just visible near the tender. Number 71 also has its spark arrestor folded down.
Makes you wonder, why all this heavy power in Silver Plume? Helpers on a multi-section excursion? Perhaps, as Bob speculated, a church outing? Or maybe some early NAACP type convention in Denver with a day trip up Clear Creek? Or maybe 62 and 71 are the power and helper on the Clear Creek local freight, the power spotted while the crews take lunch?
BTW Chris, if we have established that all three photos are on Clear Creek, why couldn't the top photo be Georgetown, the train westbound? Wasn't there a section house just west of the Georgetown tank?
Jim
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
Poulsbo, WA
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