Re: The C&S Coal Chutes: Four bins? Six Bins? Eight Bins? Ten Bins? Twelve Bins?

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/The-C-S-Coal-Chutes-Pine-Como-Dickey-Pitkin-and-almost-Breckenridge-tp4269p4300.html

I didn't realize how few photos there are of the Pitkin coal chutes.  Many photographs from atop the chutes, but next to none of the chutes themselves.

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/10179/rec/753


The photo dates to about 1901-1902 and the coal chutes in the distance are new.  I don't see a roof on the structure, perhaps a coal car in front of the bins.



The following Curtis view is c1903-1905, looking east toward Alpine Pass:


H.L. Curtis Photo - James Ehernberger Collection, in the Klingers' South Park's Gunnison Division Memories . . . , page 241.